Blocking Cryptocurency mining sites
Of late there is another online threat to things stealing your CPU ( and GPU) cycles. There are Cryptocurrency mining web sites that use javascript within your browser to generate revenue from you. hence stealing compute power from the masses. a good way to block these would be to add the domains to a new category coin-hive.com has many domain names, that it uses to hide, and someone was kind enough to start a list on github.
https://github.com/Marfjeh/coinhive-block
Could you possibly add a new category of things to block within opendns to keep the cryptocurrency miners from being able to provide the code to steal cpu and gpu cycles.
- Dave Tersigni
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New categories can be suggested here: https://community.opendns.com/domaintagging/categories#suggest
Also, best would be you open a support ticket in addition, with a link to the domain list to have them added to that category of "Cryptocurrency Mining".
Further, because one could see these domains as malware domains, they may have already been added to Cisco's malware list and could be used in Umbrella which comes with enhanced malware protection. If this is the case, then you will never see a new related category here. They will not give away paid services for free, certainly not.
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an additional source of Mining sites is also on GitHub at https://github.com/ZeroDot1/CoinBlockerLists
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This is now in Umbrella: https://support.umbrella.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000438283
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