Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2014
Members of the hacking group Lizard Squad, which have paralyzed the networks of Xbox live and PlayStation PSN, now have targeted the Tor network. The hacking collective Lizard Squad that has paralyzed the Play Station Network and Xbox live networks at Christmas now seems to concentrate its efforts on the popular anonymizing Tor network. In time I’m […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2014
The Tor network could be seriously impacted by the seizure of directory authorities operated by law enforcement, despite it is a precious resource for all. The overall architecture of Tor network relies on nine directory authorities locate in the Europe and United States. The servers working as directory authorities provide a signed list of all the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2014
A non-public report realized by the US Treasury Department found that a majority of bank account takeovers exploits the anonymizing the Tor network. A report from the U.S. Treasury Department found that a majority of bank account takeovers by cyber criminals, affected organizations over the past decade, exploited the anonymizing Tor network. The news is shared by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2014
A group of researchers at the University of Luxembourg have demonstrated that is it possible to de-anonymize Bitcoin users from its transactions. The majority of Bitcoin users consider the virtual currency absolutely anonymous, but researchers at the University of Luxembourg have demonstrated that is it possible to de-anonymize clients in a Bitcoin P2P network. In the paper written […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2014
Experts at F-Secure discovered a link between the crew operating a rogue Tor node used to spread OnionDuke malware and MiniDuke APT. A few weeks ago the security research Josh Pitts of Leviathan Security Group identified a Russian Tor exit node that is patching the binaries downloaded by the users with malware. The researcher informed officials […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2014
The researcher Josh Pitts of Leviathan Security Group identified a Russian Tor exit node that is patching the binaries downloaded by the users with malware. Once again Tor network is under attack, the researcher Josh Pitts of Leviathan Security Group has identified a Tor exit node that was used to patch the binaries downloaded by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2014
A security researcher discovered the Torbundlebrowser.org,web site that is a replica of Tor Project site, but it is used to serve a malware. The increasing popularity of Tor network is attracting cyber criminals, recently the French security researcher Florent Daigniere discovered a website (torbundlebrowser.org) that is the replica of the original Tor Network but a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2014
A report disclosed by Wired suggests that the FBI is using a malware to identify Tor users by infecting machines on a large scale. It’s not a mystery that usage of the Tor network represents a problem for investigators of law enforcement agencies and for government entities that need to track users on the popular anonymizing network. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2014
On July 4 2014 Tor Team discovered a group of malicious relays that they assume were trying to deanonymize Tor Network users with confirmation attack technique. Tor network is an excellent technology to ensure users’ online anonymity, thanks to the Tor network users can hide online activities, staying far from the prying eyes of governments and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2014
Security experts Alexander Volynkin and Michael McCord will present at the next Black Hat 2014 a method to break Tor network anonymity with just USD 3000. Is the popular Tor network broken? In the recent months, after the Showden’s revelations, many security experts have started to investigate on the possibility that the US intelligence, and […]
