CoinEater

CoinEater插件简介

CoinEater插件描述

CoinEater blocks cryptominers such as Coinhive. Its blocklist is based on regular Internetwide 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/instituteofitsecurityresearch) 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 f cryptocurrencies inside a website visits web browser without their consent. While doing this with the consent of the user, f instance to replace incomes from advertisements, it is a legitimate application. Cryptojacking, however, abuses the users resources such as the battery of a mobile device.

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


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

CoinEater插件离线安装方法

1.首先用户点击谷歌浏览器右上角的自定义及控制按钮，在下拉框中选择设置。

2.在打开的谷歌浏览器的扩展管理器最左侧选择扩展程序或直接输入：chrome://extensions/

3.找到自己已经下载好的Chrome离线安装文件xxx.crx，然后将其从资源管理器中拖动到Chrome的扩展管理界面中，这时候用户会发现在扩展管理器的中央部分中会多出一个”拖动以安装“的插件按钮。

4.下载 CoinEaterChrome插件v0.1.3版本到本地。

5.勾选开发者模式，点击加载已解压的扩展程序，将文件夹选择即可安装插件。

注意：最新版本的chrome浏览器直接拖放安装时会出现“程序包无效CRX-HEADER-INVALID”的报错信息，参照这篇文章即可解决