CVE-2017-0377

Tor 0.3.x before 0.3.0.9 has a guard-selection algorithm that only considers the exit relay not the exit relay's family, which might allow remote attackers to defeat intended anonymity properties by leveraging the existence of large families...

CVE-2017-0377

Tor 0.3.x before 0.3.0.9 has a guard-selection algorithm that only considers the exit relay not the exit relay's family, which might allow remote attackers to defeat intended anonymity properties by leveraging the existence of large families...

CVE-2017-0377

CVE-2017-0377 affects Tor 0.3.x before 0.3.0.9. The guard-selection algorithm incorrectly considers only the exit relay (not the exit relay’s family), which can allow an attacker to compromise anonymity by exploiting large family structures. The mitigation is upgrading to upstream version 0.3.0.9...

CVE-2017-0377

Tor 0.3.x before 0.3.0.9 has a guard-selection algorithm that only considers the exit relay not the exit relay's family, which might allow remote attackers to defeat intended anonymity properties by leveraging the existence of large families...

Orfox: Tor Browser for Android - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, Runtime privilege escalation vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Orfox: Tor Browser for Android published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

ProtonMail Launches Free VPN Service

Encrypted email service ProtonMail announced today it was launching a free VPN service called ProtonVPN. Developers said the move comes following one year of development and four months of beta testing by 10,000 ProtonMail community members. According to Proton Technologies AG, the company behind...

openSUSE Security Update : tor (openSUSE-2017-690)

This update to tor 0.2.9.11 fixes the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2017-0375: remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service handles a malformed BEGIN cell bsc1043455 - CVE-2017-0376: remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a BEGINDIR cell on a hidden service...

New Fileless Ransomware with Code Injection Ability Detected in the Wild

It is no secret that hackers and cybercriminals are becoming dramatically more adept, innovative, and stealthy with each passing day. While new forms of cybercrime are on the rise, traditional activities seem to be shifting towards more clandestine techniques that come with limitless attack vecto...

Amnesic Incognito Live System: Tails

Amnesic Incognito Live System Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly. It is a complete operating...

Updated tor packages fix security vulnerability

A remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a BEGINDIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit CVE-2017-0376...

MGASA-2017-0176 Updated tor packages fix security vulnerability

A remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a BEGINDIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit CVE-2017-0376...

New Mac Malware-as-a-Service offerings

A couple weeks ago, two new Malware-as-a-Service MaaS offerings for the Mac became available. These two offerings - a backdoor named MacSpy and a ransomware app named MacRansom - were discovered by Catalin Cimpanu of Bleeping Computer on May 25. Cimpanu evidently had some trouble getting hold of...

Tails 3.0 - Live System to Preserve Your Privacy and Anonymity

Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly. It is a complete operating system designed to be used fr...

Tor Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-14149)

Tor The Onion Router is a second-generation implementation of onion routing, primarily used for anonymous access to the Internet. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the 'connectionedgeprocessrelaycell' function of the hidden service function in versions of Tor prior to 0.3.0.8. An attack...

[ASA-201706-13] tor: denial of service

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201706-13 ========================================== Severity: Medium Date : 2017-06-13 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-0375 CVE-2017-0376 Package : tor Type : denial of service Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-296 Summary ======= The package tor before...

Free Mac Ransomware-as-a-Service MacRansom Surfaces

Researchers on Friday began warning of MacRansom, a new and free macOS-based ransomware as a service RaaS that’s been making the rounds over the past several weeks. It leverages a portal hosted on the Tor network, but attackers looking for the malware won’t find it there. Interested parties need ...

Debian DLA-982-1 : tor security update

It has been discovered that Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system, contains a flaw in the hidden service code. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a hidden service to crash with an assertion failure TROVE-2017-005. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this...

Debian DSA-3877-1 : tor - security update

It has been discovered that Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system, contain a flaw in the hidden service code when receiving a BEGINDIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a hidden service to crash wit...

French Police Seize 6 Tor Relay Servers in WannaCry Investigation

WannaCry, the biggest ransomware attack in the history, gained prominence very rapidly in the media globally after the ransomware infected more than 300,000 computers in over 150 countries within just 72 hours. Governments, Intelligence agencies and law enforcement around the world have already...

pymultitor - Python Multi Threaded Tor Proxy

Did you ever want to be at two different places at the same time? While performing penetration tests there are often problems caused by security devices that block the "attacking" IP. With a large number of IP addresses performing the attacks, better results are guaranteed - especially when...