The Tor Project cut a third of its staff due to the economic impact of the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak, 13 staffers out of 35 left the team. The ongoing Coronavirus outbreak has a significant impact on the Tor Project that was forced to cut a third of its staff due to the economic impact of […]
The popular privacy-focused Tails OS has released version 4.5 this, for the first time it supports the security feature named UEFI Secure Boot. Tails, the popular privacy-focused OS, now supports the UEFI Secure Boot, this means that it could boot on systems where the UEFI Secure Boot is enabled. Tails is a live operating system that users […]
The Tor Project released Tor Browser 9.0.7 that definitively addresses a vulnerability that allowed to execute JavaScript code on sites it should not. The Tor Project released Tor Browser 9.0.7 that permanently addresses a severe bug that allowed JavaScript code to run on sites it should not. A couple of weeks ago, the Tor Project […]
Italian law enforcement shut down the ‘Berlusconi market’ black market and arrested three suspected of being its administrators. Italian financial police “Guardia di Finanza” shut down the ‘Berlusconi market’ black market hosted on the Tor network and arrested three administrators. The site was managed by two individuals that go online with nicknames of “VladimirPutin” with […]
A tainted version of the Tor Browser is targeting dark web market shoppers to steal their cryptocurrency and gather information on their browsing activity. A Trojanized version of the Tor Browser is targeting shoppers of black marketplaces in the dark web, threat actors aim to steal their cryptocurrency and gather information on their browsing activity. […]
Maintainers at the Tor Project have removed from its network more than 800 relay servers running outdated and EOL versions of the Tor software. Currently, the Tor network is composed of more than 6000 relays, some of them running outdated Tor software versions (in some cases back to the 0.2.4.x versions). Other relays are running […]
The Tor Project has raised $86,000 for a Bug Smash fund that it will use to pay developers that will address critical flaws in the popular anonymizing network. The Tor Project has raised $86,000 for a Bug Smash fund that was created to pay developers that will address critical security and privacy issues in the popular anonymizing […]
Researchers explained that carrying out attacks against the most used default Tor bridges would cost threat actors $17,000 per month. According to security researchers Rob Jansen from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Tavish Vaidya and Micah Sherr from Georgetown University, launching denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against most commonly used default Tor bridges would cost attackers […]
Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new Mirai Botnet that has command and control server in the Tor network to make takedowns hard. Experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new Mirai Botnet that uses a Command and Control hidden in the Tor Network, a choice that protects the anonymity of the operators and […]
SyTech, a contractor for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has been hacked, attackers stole data about internal projects. Attackers have hacked SyTech, a contractor for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), and exfiltrated data about internal projects. According to the Russian media, SyTech has been working with FSB […]