Annual Protest Raises $250K to Cure Krebs
Summary: For the second year, members of the German-language image forum pr0gramm[.]com donated to cancer research in protest of a 2018 KrebsOnSecurity story that identified Coinhive's creators, with this year's campaign raising 252,000 euros (about USD $284,000) and bringing the total past a half-million dollars. The 2018 story, published March 26, showed Coinhive's founder co-created pr0gramm, and Coinhive announced the prior month it was shutting down, citing negative circumstances and a drop in the value of the cryptocurrency its code mined.
Key Takeaway: Coinhive's code was found on tens of thousands of hacked websites, and the service profited from that abuse until structural changes followed the 2018 story; the forum's response to being named was a charity drive, not a denial of the underlying abuse.
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