Google Disrupts NetNut Residential Proxy Network Spanning 2 Million Home Devices

Google has significantly degraded NetNut , one of the biggest networks that turns home devices into rented relays for other people's traffic. Working with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google's Threat Intelligence Group GTIG said this week it had reduced the network's pool of usable devices by...

EUVD-2006-3406

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FreeBSD : tailscale -- Insufficient inbound packet filtering in subnet routers and exit nodes (ee6936da-0ddd-11ef-9c21-901b0e9408dc)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ee6936da-0ddd-11ef-9c21-901b0e9408dc advisory. - Tailscale team reports: In Tailscale versions earlier than 1.66.0, exit nodes, subnet routers, and ap...

tailscale -- Insufficient inbound packet filtering in subnet routers and exit nodes

Tailscale team reports: In Tailscale versions earlier than 1.66.0, exit nodes, subnet routers, and app connectors, could allow inbound connections to other tailnet nodes from their local area network LAN. This vulnerability only affects Linux exit nodes, subnet routers, and app connectors in...

YoroTrooper: Researchers Warn of Kazakhstan's Stealthy Cyber Espionage Group

A relatively new threat actor known as YoroTrooper is likely made up of operators originating from Kazakhstan. The assessment, which comes from Cisco Talos, is based on their fluency in Kazakh and Russian, use of Tenge to pay for operating infrastructure, and very limited targeting of Kazakhstani...

USB-based Wormable Malware Targets Windows Installer

Credit: Red Canary Wormable malware dubbed Raspberry Robin has been active since last September and is wriggling its way through USB drives onto Windows machines to use Microsoft Standard Installer and other legitimate processes to install malicious files, researchers have found. Researchers at...

Was threat actor KAX17 de-anonymizing the Tor network?

A mysterious threat actor has run thousands of malicious servers in entry, middle, and exit positions of the Tor network. Tracked as KAX17, the threat actor ran at its peak more than 900 malicious servers part of the Tor network, which typically tends to hover around a daily total of up to...

CVE-2021-41217

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the process of building the control flow graph for a TensorFlow model is vulnerable to a null pointer exception when nodes that should be paired are not. This occurs because the code assumes that the first node in th...

Upcoming Tor Design Battles Hidden Services Snooping

More than 100 malicious Tor Hidden Services Directories HSDirs were found to be snooping on the services they host, and in some cases, operators were actively using the data collected to attack the services. While at first blush, the discovery would seem to put another dent in the privacy and...

How Spies Could Unmask Tor Users without Cracking Encryption

The Onion Router Tor is weeping Badly! Yes, Tor browser is in danger of being caught once again by the people commonly known as "Spies," who's one and only intention is to intrude into others’ network and gather information. A team of security researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technolog...

Tor-Based Dark Web Email Service Targeted by Government Spies

The administrator of the popular Darknet email service, SIGAINT, is warning its users that the email service has become a target of a suspected law enforcement agency who tried to compromise it. About a week ago, SIGAINT has been targeted by an attacker who tried to hack the service by using near...

NSA using Browser Cookies to track Tor Users

Yesterday a new classified NSA document was leaked by Edward Snowden - titled 'Tor Stinks' in which ideas were being kicked around for identifying Tor users or degrading the user experience to dissuade people from using the Tor browser. The NSA had a very hard time while tracking down all Tor...

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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2006-3410

Tor before 0.1.1.20 creates "internal circuits" primarily consisting of nodes with "useful exit nodes," which allows remote attackers to conduct unspecified statistical attacks...