CoinEater

CoinEater protects you against the threat of cryptojacking.

What is CoinEater?

CoinEater is a specialized Chrome extension, developed by the Institute of IT Security Research, that offers protection against cryptojacking by blocking known crypto-miners such as Coinhive. This open-source software, a fork of NoCoin, is powered by regular web scans and research to deliver a comprehensive and updated blocklist. It's a reliable resource for preserving user's resources from unsolicited mining.

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Users: 735 ▼ -19

Rating: 5.00 (1)

Version: 0.1.3 (Last updated: 2019-04-02)

Creation date: 2019-04-02

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
tabs
<all_urls>
webRequest
webRequestBlocking

Size: 34.97K

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# 33423 ▼ 372

Other rankings

#26435 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 61

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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).