PureCrypter Deploys Agent Tesla and New TorNet Backdoor in Ongoing Cyberattacks

A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to an ongoing phishing email campaign that has been ongoing since at least July 2024 specifically targeting users in Poland and Germany. The attacks have led to the deployment of various payloads, such as Agent Tesla, Snake Keylogger, and a...

The vulnerability of the anonymous web browser Tor, related to authentication errors, allows a hacker to trigger a service denial.

The vulnerability of the anonymous web browser Tor is related to authentication errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to cause service interruptions...

ZynOS rom-0 Flaw Scanner

!/usr/bin/perl ZynOS rom-0 Flaw Scanner Copyright 2021 c Todor Donev https://donev.eu/ $ perl zynosscanner ZynOS rom-0 Flaw Scanner zynosscanner --targets= --threads=10 --redirects=7 --help --targets | Specify the list with addresses that you want to scan. --dump | Dump rom-0 file for each target...

Cell Phone Location Privacy

We all know that our cell phones constantly give our location away to our mobile network operators; that’s how they work. A group of researchers has figured out a way to fix that. “Pretty Good Phone Privacy” PGPP protects both user identity and user location using the existing cellular networks. ...

Tor Browser for Android — First Official App Released On Play Store

Wohooo! Great news for privacy-focused users. Tor Browser, the most popular privacy-focused browser, for Android is finally out of beta, and the first stable version has now arrived on Google Play Store for anyone to download. The Tor Project announced Tuesday the first official stable release of...

Tor Developer Busts Myths, Announces New Features

The Tor Project gets a bad rap as being a playground for the guilty. That’s why Tor Project co-founder Roger Dingledine took the stage last week at DEF CON to bust popular myths and announce upcoming features related to the anonymity network that averages 2 million users a day. Dingledine’s bigge...

Tor Launches Bug Bounty Program — Get Paid for Hacking!

With the growing number of cyber attacks and breaches, a significant number of companies and organisations have started Bug Bounty programs for encouraging hackers, bug hunters and researchers to find and responsibly report bugs in their services and get rewarded. Following major companies and...

Core Tor Contributor Leaves Project; Shutting Down Important Tor Nodes

Another blow to the Tor Project: One of the Tor Project's earliest contributors has decided to quit the project and shut down all of the important Tor nodes under his administration. Lucky Green was part of the Tor Project before the anonymity network was known as TOR. He probably ran one of the...

Here's How Riffle Anonymity Network Protects Your Privacy better than Tor

Online privacy is an Internet buzzword nowadays. If you are also concerned about the privacy of your web surfing, the most efficient way is to use TOR – a free software that lets users communicate anonymously by hiding their actual location from snoopers. Although TOR is a great anonymous network...

MIT Anonymity Network Riffle Promises Efficiency, Security

Researchers from MIT believe a new anonymity scheme they’ve devised dubbed Riffle could contend with Tor, claiming it’s every bit as secure as Tor, and bandwidth-efficient, to boot. According to a paper, “Riffle: An Efficient Communication System With Strong Anonymity,” .PDF released this week, t...

Astoria — Advanced Tor Client Designed to Avoid NSA Attacks

In response to the threat of intelligence agencies like NSA and GCHQ, Security researchers from American and Israeli academics have developed a new advanced Tor client called Astoria specially designed to make eavesdropping harder. Tor The Onion Router is the most popular anonymity network that i...

TorBirdy - Torbutton for Thunderbird

TorBirdy is Torbutton for Thunderbird, Icedove and related Mozilla mail clients. It may also work with other non-web browser Mozilla programs such as Sunbird. This extension configures Thunderbird to make connections over the Tor anonymity network. Notable changes in this release include: 0.1.3, ...

Intelligence Insiders Disclose Bug Information With Tor

The executive director of the Tor Project told the BBC that U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies are in an internal cat and mouse game, with one faction trying to break the anonymity network, and another one sharing bugs anonymously with Tor developers. Andrew Leman, in an extensive...

i2Ninja Financial Malware Communicates on I2P Darknet

The Mevade botnet made news when it was found to be using the Tor anonymity network to communicate with its command and control infrastructure. Running C&C on Tor, however, turned out to be a fatal mistake when Tor usage spiked alerting administrators to the unusual activity. A group of Russian...

Latest Snowden Leak Explains NSA Subversion of Tor Users

The latest Snowden documents, made public today, suggest the National Security Agency is able to peel back the veil on a small fraction of Tor users at a time, but overall the integrity of the anonymity network remains intact. Tor promises its users a level of anonymity online for their Web...

Tor Botnet Makes Bad Move to Anonymity Network

MEvade, the massive botnet using Tor as a communication protocol, may have moved operations to the network in order to hamper potential takedown efforts, but according to security researchers, the move just served to shine a spotlight on the botnet’s activities. Rather than hide traffic from bots...