[Ads-l] It is, to me: "Cryptojacking is nothing new."

[Andy Bach]

There's also "jackpotting"
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) says it has charged two people with bank
fraud in connection with ATM jackpotting attacks.

Getting an ATM to dump out it contents.  The attacks just arrived in the
U.S. this year or so, I can find an "Anarchis" text from 1990
*JACKPOTTING*: What is It? By The Prowler.

and reference from 1975 web page headline:
Hacked Tokyo cryptocurrency exchange to repay owners $425 million · ATM
makers warn of '*jackpotting*' hacks on U.S. machines

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "For the unaware, _cryptojacking_ typically involves unscrupulous website
> owners or advertisers using JavaScript code to take advantage of a website
> visitor's CPU power to mine cryptocurrency in the background, without their
> knowledge or consent."
>
> goo.gl/53BWCS
>
> This seems to be a development based on _in-browser cryptocurrency-mining_.
>
> goo.gl/GgKNTV
>
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> -Wilson
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