Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2021
Since 2017, an unknown threat actor has run thousands of malicious Tor relay servers in the attempt to unmask Tor users. A mysterious threat actor, tracked as KAX17, has run thousands of malicious Tor relay servers since 2017 in an attempt to deanonymize Tor users. KAX17 ran relay servers in various positions within the Tor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2020
A security researcher has discovered that a threat actor controlled roughly 23% of the Tor networkâs exit nodes. A security researcher named Nusenu revealed that in May a malicious controlled roughly 23% of the entire Tor networkâs exit nodes. Experts warn that this was the first time that a single actor controlled such a large […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2020
A security researcher published the details about two Tor zero-day vulnerabilities and plans to release three more flaws. The security researcher Dr. Neal Krawetz has published technical details about two Tor zero-day vulnerabilities over the past week and promises to release three more. Oppressive regimes could exploit these Tor zero-day flaws to prevent users from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2020
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned enterprises about cyberattacks from the Tor network. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning enterprises of cyberattacks launched from the Tor network. Threat actors leverage the Tor network to hide the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2017
Dark net webmail provider For the third consecutive week, the popular Tor web email service SIGAINT is unavailable and the real cause is a mystery. SIGAINT is one of the largest web email services on the TOR network that is used to send messages preserving the user’s anonymity. For the third consecutive week, the popular email service is unavailable […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2016
Mozilla plans to fix the cross-platform RCE flaw that threatened Tor anonymity. The flaw affects certificate pinning protections implemented by Mozilla. Mozilla plans to release a Firefox update to address the cross-platform remote code-execution vulnerability recently patched in the Tor browser. The tor is inviting its users to install the security update urgently, and Mozilla follows close […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2016
A group of researchers has developed Riffle, a new anonymity scheme that provides better security and performance than others, including Tor. Tor is probably the most popular anonymizing network, million of users leveraged on it to protect their privacy and online anonymity. Now Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers revealed a new anonymity architecture that could rival Tor. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2016
Two security experts have conducted a study that allowed them to spot over 100 snooping Tor HSDir Nodes spying on Dark Web Sites. The attempts of snooping traffic from Tor nodes are not a novelty, in the past, we have reported the activity of threat actors that set up malicious exit nodes to de-anonymize users. Early 2014, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2016
A default setting in Apache Web servers can de-anonymize the hidden service allowing an attacker to obtain details on the hosting. An unknown student has discovered a serious issue in Apache Web Server that could potentially de-anonymize .onion-domains and servers hidden behind the Tor-network. The student already reported the issue to the Tor Project development team […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2015
Today the TorProject has released a new beta version of Tor Messenger, based on Instantbird, an instant messaging client developed in the Mozilla community. It’s official, the Tor Project has launched the first beta version of Tor Messenger, an open source and Encrypted instant messaging client that relies on Tor network. The messenger has been […]
