{"id":122894,"date":"2018-01-07T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122894"},"modified":"2018-01-05T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T11:47:39","slug":"opera-50-fights-hidden-crypto-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/122894-opera-50-fights-hidden-crypto-miners","title":{"rendered":"Opera 50 fights hidden crypto miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opera has launched version 50 of its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/computer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>desktop browser<\/strong><\/a>, which includes a new feature designed to combat cryptocurrency miners embedded in websites.<\/p>\n<p>These miners can hijack your computer\u2019s CPU power without permission while you are visiting a website and use your hardware to mine currencies like Monero to an anonymous address.<\/p>\n<p>Mining scripts for services such as Coinhive can be implemented using a few simple lines of JavaScript and are difficult to detect when casually browsing.<\/p>\n<p>Opera\u2019s crypto mining security feature is automatically enabled when the browser\u2019s ad-blocking tool is turned on.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/234712-coinhive-miner-dns-hacked.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Coinhive miner DNS hacked<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera has launched version 50 of its\u00a0desktop browser, which includes a new feature designed to combat cryptocurrency miners embedded in websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":102667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[22871,25584,10032],"class_list":["post-122894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-22871","tag-crypto-miners","tag-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}