What is CoinEater?

CoinEater is a Chrome extension developed by Unknown, and its main feature is "CoinEater protects you against the threat of cryptojacking.".

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Extension Usage Instructions

CoinEater blocks crypto-miners such as Coinhive. It's blocklist is based on regular Internet-wide security scans which are conducted within a scientific research project.

Made by the Institute of IT Security Research (https://www.fhstp.ac.at/en/research/institute-of-it-security-research) at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences

In our research project PriSAd we examined cryptojacking on the web. Cryptojacking is the process of mining for cryptocurrencies inside a website visitor's web browser without their consent. While doing this with the consent of the user, for instance to replace incomes from advertisements, it is a legitimate application. Cryptojacking, however, abuses the user's resources such as the battery of a mobile device.

We periodically scan the Alexa Top 1 million websites for cryptojacking and perform various analyses. Additionally, we use the results to create a blocklist, which effectively blocks hidden cryptojacking on the web.

CoinEater is open source software and licensed under MIT. It is a fork of NoCoin (https://github.com/keraf/NoCoin) and the source code is available on Github: https://github.com/fhstp/CoinEater
The icons are derivatives of the following original work: Icons made by Smashicons (https://www.flaticon.com/authors/smashicons) and Freepik (http://www.freepik.com) from http://www.flaticon.com are licensed by CC 3.0 BY.
This work has been supported by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency under grant 853264 (PriSAd).

Extension Basic Information

Name	CoinEater
ID	mphghokdjcoojfjbmldmjodgmbjchnlp
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/coineater/mphghokdjcoojfjbmldmjodgmbjchnlp
Description	CoinEater protects you against the threat of cryptojacking.
File Size	34.15 KB
Installation Count	863
Current Version	0.1.3
Last Updated	2019-04-02
Publish Date	2019-04-02
Rating	5.00/5 Total 1 Ratings
Developer	Unknown
Payment Type	free
Extension Website	https://github.com/fhstp/CoinEater
Help Page URL	https://github.com/fhstp/CoinEater
Supported Languages	en
manifest.json
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