Saturday, 2. July 2016

Over 100 Snooping Tor Nodes Have Been Spying on Dark Web Sites


Just like the internet generally, not all of the Tor network is safe. Sometimes, people set up malicious exit nodes—the part of the network where a user's traffic joins the rest of the normal web—in order to spy on what users are up to. But there are other types of nosy nodes too. Researchers have uncovered over 100 malicious hidden service directories (HSDirs): the relays of the network that allow people to visit dark web sites.

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