I wonder if this could be somehow just on my computer and would love for some others to check. It appears to me that the immigration site (http://imigrasi.go.id/) has a malware called "coinhive" that uses the computers of visitors to mine bitcoin/cyrptocurrency.
I noticed that my CPU was running at 100% and it said it was a Chrome browser process. Chrome has a built-in task manager (menu>more tools>task manager) which showed me that there was a process called "subframe: coinhive" that was using all the CPU it could get. A quick google search told me this is a malware that is sometimes on web pages and sometimes in Chrome extensions. I killed all my extensions and started going through the tabs I had open one by one, as soon as I closed the immigration site, my CPU dropped to its normal 1-5% and the process is gone. As soon as I open the page the process is back and my CPU spikes to max. I've now tried it on two computers and two different browsers with the same results.
Can anyone else duplicate this behavior? If it is malware purely on their site, who wants to try to explain it to them??
I noticed that my CPU was running at 100% and it said it was a Chrome browser process. Chrome has a built-in task manager (menu>more tools>task manager) which showed me that there was a process called "subframe: coinhive" that was using all the CPU it could get. A quick google search told me this is a malware that is sometimes on web pages and sometimes in Chrome extensions. I killed all my extensions and started going through the tabs I had open one by one, as soon as I closed the immigration site, my CPU dropped to its normal 1-5% and the process is gone. As soon as I open the page the process is back and my CPU spikes to max. I've now tried it on two computers and two different browsers with the same results.
Can anyone else duplicate this behavior? If it is malware purely on their site, who wants to try to explain it to them??
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