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Click-Fraud Sefnit Variant Shuns Tor for SSH
Sefnit was the first malware family to shed light on the problem of botnets and other malicious code using the Tor anonymity network as a communication protocol. While others before and since have done the same, Sefnit made the biggest splash at the end of last summer when the botnet caused a 600...
Siemens Update on Heartbleed Patches in ICS, SCADA
Industrial control equipment manufacturer Siemens has produced a security update that mitigates the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability in its eLAN systems and now its WinCC OA supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software as well. The company is continuing to work on patches to resolve th...
Grams - First Search Engine for Underground Black Markets
We often talk about Underground communities, illegal websites or black markets, but as they are ‘Underground’ in nature i.e. Hidden websites running under Onion Network, many of us don't know how to reach the one we are searching for and if hopefully found, then its difficult to figure out a...
Tor Blacklisting Exit Nodes Vulnerable to Heartbleed Bug
The Tor Project has begun blacklisting exit nodes vulnerable to the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL. Researcher Collin Mulliner, with the Systems Security Lab at Northeastern University in Boston, published the results of an experiment he conducted using a publicly disclosed Heartbleed...
Several Tor Exit Nodes Vulnerable To Heartbleed Bug
Half of the Internet fall victim to the biggest threat, Heartbleed bug and even the most popular online anonymity network Tor is also not spared from this bug. Tor is one of the best and freely available privacy software, runs on the network of donated servers that lets people communicate...
U.S. Government Seeks Laxer Hacking Rules for Law Enforcement
The federal government is looking for a way to relax the laws to make it simpler for law enforcement agents to target and compromise the computers of suspects involved in criminal cases. The Department of Justice has forwarded a request to the body that considers such changes, asking that judges ...
How to access Twitter in Turkey - #TwitterisBlockedinTurkey
Twitter, the biggest Social Media platform used for vital communication is now banned in Turkey from the last few days, after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan promised to root out the social media service during an election rally this week with the help of a court order. “Twitter and so on, we...
Malicious iOS Tor Browser in Apple App Store
An iOS Tor Browser hosted for download on Apple’s notoriously restrictive App Store is reportedly a fake. Worse yet, not only is the application said to be illegitimate, but also allegedly malicious. According to a support ticket opened by a Tor Project volunteer operating under the handle Phobos...
Tor Network used to Host 900 Botnets and hidden Darknet Markets
Tor network offers users browse the Internet anonymously and is mostly used by activists, journalists to conceal their online activities from prying eyes. But it also has the Dark side, as Tor is also a Deep Web friendly tool that allows hackers and cyber criminals to carry out illicit activities...
Microsoft, Kaspersky Shed Light on Sefnit Tor Botnet
Alarm bells went off last August when spikes in Tor client downloads were traced to a large click-fraud and Bitcoin-mining botnet called Sefnit. The malware was using the popular anonymity network to communicate with hackers in order to transmit stolen data and receive additional commands. In...
First Tor-Based Android Malware Spotted in the Wild
We use our Smartphone devices to do almost everything, from Internet Banking to Sharing private files and at the same pace, the mobile malware sector is also growing. The number of variants of malicious software aimed at mobile devices has reportedly risen about 185% in less than a year. Security...
[FGscanner] Find hidden contents using dictionary-like attack
FGscanner is a completely rewritten version of littlescanner script. FGscanner is an opensource advanced web directory scanner to find hidden contents on a web server using dictionary-like attack with proxy and tor support. Quick reference for switches Usage: ./fgscan.pl --host=hostname...
Underground Marketplace 'Utopia' Seized by Dutch Police, 5 suspects arrested
After Silk Road, another underground online marketplace 'Utopia' has been seized by Dutch National Police, where users could buy illegal drugs and guns for home delivery. The police started their investigation under Codename 'Operation Commodore' in 2013, and finally seized Utopia's Germany-based...
Updated tor package fixes security vulnerability
Tor before 0.2.4.20, when OpenSSL 1.x is used in conjunction with a certain HardwareAccel setting on Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge platforms, does not properly generate random numbers for relay identity keys and hidden-service identity keys, which might make it easier for remote attackers to...
MGASA-2014-0059 Updated tor package fixes security vulnerability
Tor before 0.2.4.20, when OpenSSL 1.x is used in conjunction with a certain HardwareAccel setting on Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge platforms, does not properly generate random numbers for relay identity keys and hidden-service identity keys, which might make it easier for remote attackers to...
CVE-2012-2250
Tor before 0.2.3.24-rc allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and daemon exit by performing link protocol negotiation incorrectly...
CVE-2012-2250
Tor before 0.2.3.24-rc allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and daemon exit by performing link protocol negotiation incorrectly...
DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2250
Tor before 0.2.3.24-rc allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and daemon exit by performing link protocol negotiation incorrectly...
CVE-2012-2249
Tor before 0.2.3.23-rc allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and daemon exit via a renegotiation attempt that occurs after the initiation of the V3 link protocol...