Cryptocurrency miners put cloud at risk with hacking efforts

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Threat actors can install malicious code on unknowing websites to hijack visitors' resources

Several legitimate websites have been hacked to include code, which forces visitors' computers to divert resources to cryptocurrency mining. Hackers have installed the code on sites belonging to...

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