Detect CoinHive Captcha

SecurityCryptominers

Coinhive Captcha provides captcha service that is simple to integrate, where your users’ devices need to solve a number of hashes, adjustable by you, in order to login or post a comment to your site.

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Websites using CoinHive Captcha

No websites in the corpus for this technology yet.

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What a detection means

Establishes
One or more public signals on the scanned page matched a known CoinHive Captcha signature at the time of the scan.
Does not establish
A sitewide install of CoinHive Captcha, an active vendor contract, exclusive use, or that CoinHive Captcha is still in place today.
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How to check a site for CoinHive Captcha

  1. 1. Enter the website URL in the scan form — homepage, pricing, checkout, or login pages usually expose the strongest CoinHive Captcha signals.
  2. 2. PluginView reads only public responses and scores them against proprietary CoinHive Captcha fingerprints. Rule bodies and identifiers are not published.
  3. 3. Review the confidence score and text explanation for CoinHive Captcha on the results page.
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FAQ: detecting CoinHive Captcha

Can PluginView detect CoinHive Captcha without logging in?
Yes. PluginView only reads publicly accessible responses when checking for CoinHive Captcha. It does not bypass authentication or paywalls.
What category is CoinHive Captcha?
CoinHive Captcha is classified under Security, Cryptominers in the PluginView directory.
Does PluginView publish CoinHive Captcha fingerprint rules?
No. Detection uses proprietary fingerprint rules that are not published. Scan results explain matches in plain language without disclosing rule bodies or identifiers.

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