Cryptomining with JavaScript in an Excel spreadsheet

Security researcher Charles Dardaman explains on his blog, how he was able to use Microsoft’s own documentation of how to use JavaScript functions in the Insider Preview edition of Excel to link a spreadsheet to the Coinhive cryptomining service. Right now, JavaScript in Excel custom functions is only supported in the Developer Preview edition to Office 365 subscribers enrolled in the Office Insiders program. But it seems inevitable that in the not too distant future it will be available in more widely-used versions of Excel as well.

Source: grahamcluley.com