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YouTube has been briefly caught out by adverts that sought to mine valuable crypto-coins using visitors' computers.<\/p>\n

The malicious adverts were spotted by<\/a> security firm Trend Micro, which watches crypto-cash malware.<\/p>\n

The adverts included computer code that helped them mine the Monero crypto-currency.<\/p>\n

The rapid rise in the value of crypto-coins has prompted many cyber-crime gangs to try and cash in by using innocent machines to generate the cash.<\/p>\n

Cashing out<\/h2>\n

The gangs are keen to get malicious code on lots of computers because most crypto-currencies rely on large networks of machines to verify transactions and generate new coins. The more machines working for them, the more coins they can extract.<\/p>\n

Chaoying Liu and Joseph Chen from Trend Micro said the first sign of the campaign was a sudden tripling of the number of malicious coin-mining scripts the company caught.<\/p>\n

Investigating the increase, the pair found a lot of advertisements that contained code for a well-known miner called Coinhive.<\/p>\n

"Attackers abused Google's DoubleClick, which develops and provides internet ad serving services, for traffic distribution," said the researchers.<\/p>\n

On victims' machines, when the mining script was triggered it would use 80% of the computer's processing power to generate coins.<\/p>\n

Trend Micro said it passed on its findings to Google who said it been "actively monitoring" this type of malware campaign.<\/p>\n

"In this case, the ads were blocked in less than two hours and the malicious actors were quickly removed from our platforms," it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Security researcher Chris Boyd, from anti-virus maker Malwarebytes, said the rapidly rising value of crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin had proved irresistible to many cyber-criminals.<\/p>\n

"Coin-mining has proven to be quite the craze," he said.<\/p>\n

It had become so popular because it involved less work than was required by many other scams, he added.<\/p>\n

"If you are into scams and malware and hijacks, you are always looking for the path of least resistance," he said. <\/p>\n

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