Tor Exit Relay Scanner: Exitmap

Tor is one of the best and freely available privacy software that lets people communicate anonymously online through a series of nodes that is designed to provide anonymity for users and bypass Internet censorship. An exit node, the final destination in the series of servers Tor users hop through...

Malicious Russian Tor Exit Relays Intercepting encrypted Traffic of Facebook Users

Tor is one of the best and freely available privacy software that lets people communicate anonymously online through a series of nodes that is designed to provide anonymity for users and bypass Internet censorship. When you use the Tor software, your IP address remains hidden and it appears that...

Small Number of Malicious Tor Exit Relays Snooping Traffic

A small number of Tor exit relays are misbehaving, conducting man-in-the-middle attacks and monitoring encrypted traffic from users of the anonymity network. Researchers from Karlstad University in Sweden published a paper this week examining the malicious behavior of some Tor exit relays and fou...

Microsoft remotely deleted Tor-based 'Sefnit Botnet' from more than 2 Million Systems

In October 2013, Microsoft adopted a silent, offensive method to tackle infection due to a Tor-based botnet malware called 'Sefnit'. In an effort to takedown of the Sefnit botnet to protect windows users, Microsoft remotely removes the older versions of installed Tor Browser software and infectio...

[fwknop] Single Packet Authorization and Port Knocking

fwknop stands for the "FireWall KNock OPerator", and implements an authorization scheme called Single Packet Authorization SPA. This method of authorization is based around a default-drop packet filter fwknop supports iptables on Linux, ipfw on FreeBSD and Mac OS X, and PF on OpenBSD and libpcap...

U.S. Judge ordered the largest Ever Forfeiture of 29,655 Bitcoins seized from Silk Road

In last October, the Feds told they would probably just liquidate the bitcoins seized from the online black market Silk Road, once they were legally free to do so. Finally the United States District Judge J. Paul Oetken signed off on the forfeiture order for the Bitcoins, clearing the government ...

CVE-2013-7295

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 1 relay identity keys and 2 hidden-service identity keys, which might make it easier for remote attackers...

CVE-2013-7295

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 1 relay identity keys and 2 hidden-service identity keys, which might make it easier for remote attackers...

CVE-2013-7295

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 1 relay identity keys and 2 hidden-service identity keys, which might make it easier for remote attackers...

Design/Logic Flaw

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 1 relay identity keys and 2 hidden-service identity keys, which might make it easier for remote attackers...

CVE-2013-7295

Tor before 0.2.4.20, when OpenSSL 1.x is used with a specific HardwareAccel setting on Intel Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge, may fail to generate random numbers for relay and hidden-service identity keys, potentially bypassing cryptographic protections. Impact is partial confidentiality/integrity risk; ...

CVE-2013-7295

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 1 relay identity keys and 2 hidden-service identity keys, which might make it easier for remote attackers...

CVE-2013-7295

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 1 relay identity keys and 2 hidden-service identity keys, which might make it easier for remote attackers...

[Pinpoint] Enumerates WebPage Components to help identify the Infected Files

Pinpoint works like wget/curl in that it just fetches a webpage without rendering any script. Pinpoint will then try to determine which links are used to make up the webpage such as Javascript, CSS, frames, and iframes and downloads those files too some Javascript content will produce incorrect...

[Orbot] Mobile Anonymity + Circumvention

Orbot is a free proxy app that empowers other apps to use the internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of...

Tor Browser Bundle 3.5

The 2.x stable series of the Tor Browser Bundle has officially been deprecated, and all users are encouraged to upgrade to the 3.5 series. Packages are now available from the Tor download page as well as the Tor Package archive. For now, the Pluggable Transports-capable TBB is still a separate...

[Tor-ramdisk] Micro Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to securely host a Tor server purely in RAM

Tor-ramdisk is a uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to securely host a Tor server purely in RAM. For those not familiar with Tor, it is a system which allows the user to construct encrypted virtual tunnels which are randomly relayed between Tor servers nodes until the...

Researchers spotted 'Chewbacca', a new Tor-based Banking Trojan

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Chewbacca Tor-Based Malware Steals Keystrokes

The Tor network may provide a lead-lined cover for Internet users seeking a measure of privacy online, but it also has proven to be an attractive shelter for attackers. A number of malware campaigns have been able to successfully maneuver on Tor, using the anonymity network as a communication...

64-Bit Zeus Banking Trojan Communicates Over Tor Network

The infamous Zeus banking Trojan has gone 64-bit. But why? Researchers at Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team spotted a new version of the malware that behaves much like its 32-bit contemporaries: it too uses Web injects to steal banking credentials to drain online accounts, steal...