ForoCoches discovers a new website that mines cryptocurrencies through embedded code for such a practice, in this case it is Semana.es magazine, which curiously has nothing to do with the technological world.

In recent months we have a veritable plague of websites that implement a cryptocurrency miner in their code, something that we are completely against. Pirate Bay was the one who started this practice, which has spread and we have been able to see it in a WiFi network of a Starbucks in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Then we saw it on the Movistar website and now, the latest website that has joined this practice is the pink press website, Semana.es. Before continuing, we must say that we are completely against this despicable practice.

This has been discovered by a user of ForumCars, who when accessing this website, noticed that something was not working well and the processor was at full load. I detect that in just seconds, the fans started working at full blast. When the user closed the web, the problem was solved. The web in question makes a call to the web blablace.com, which is dedicated to mining cryptocurrencies.

Not only the fact that this code is a problem, but apparently NoCoin cannot prevent the mining of cryptocurrencies, thanks to the fact that the code is not within the web, but it does so with a call to a third web, so it cannot be blocked. This makes anyone who accesses this website, mine cryptocurrencies.

The web page at this moment no longer has this plug-in integrated into its code and it seems that it is a similar fact to that of Movistar, one of the web programmers who has implemented the code to obtain benefits. Semana.es has absolutely nothing to do with the world of new technologies, so this has surely gone unnoticed by many, who have no idea, even, what cryptocurrencies are.

EngadgetIt seems that he has contacted one of the people in charge of Semana.es, specifically with Juan Ramon López, who has assured that he did not know anything about it and that he would investigate what happened and give more information about it. We assume that it is a new case of an ex-employee of the company, because surely, he will be fired for doing something, for which he did not have permission.