We have been investigating whether Movistar has really implemented CoinHive on its website and at the moment, it is not in the code, although it could have been one of the workers behind the company's back, who integrated it.
The rush and not doing a little research are bad companions. The problem of mining scripts on web pages is starting to be quite a serious problem, but so far, we were only aware that this happened on websites where torrent files are made available to users. Today a piece of information has jumped where Movistar was directly accused of integrating the CoinHive miner in the code of its website, something that logically is a scandal, or rather, it would be, if it were true, because we have gone to this website to see if it's true.
UPDATE: This information comes from ForoCoches, by user Nod32. Genbeta has contacted Movistar, who have already deleted the code. Everything indicates that it could be one of the web developers, who would be behind this and not Movistar itself.
Since we don't have a Chrome plugin that detects miners in website code, we have two options. There's No Coin, which is only developed for CoinHive, and DetectMiner , which detects all types of miners. We found DetectMiner thanks to its developer, who shared it with us on social media. It works very well—so well, in fact, that the problem we detected with GranTorrent, which mines using a different system, wasn't detected by No Coin, but was by DetectMiner. This plugin doesn't block mining, but it does alert us.
We have gone to the Movistar website to see if this is true and we have been on the web for a while, reviewing the code and we have even gone to the piece of code, where the miner is supposed to be hidden and we have not seen it and both detection plugins, they show nothing. We have opened the Task Manager and everything was normal. Some time has passed since the notice was given and it may have been removed, we do not want to accuse anyone of lying, far from it, we only say that right now this is not an integrated script.
We are not going to say that it has been something done on purpose or with direct knowledge by those in charge of Movistar, it could have been that one of the company's web developers has hidden it for his own benefit, so this time, without To serve as a precedent, we are not going to criticize Movistar, which in recent years has been quite pissing off customers with its price increase policies, whether you like it or not.
