One arm of the US government may be trying to crack Tor, but another arm is handing Tor money — a lot of it. As spotted by the Guardian, the anonymous browsing tool Tor is reporting that it received over $1.8 million in federal funds last year, a figure thats gone up 50 percent from 2012. Its ironic […]
The recently discovered Critoni malware that relies on a strong encryption method and TOR network for anonymous communication with the command and control (CC) server, has been seen to aim primarly at Russian-speaking users.The sample, analyzed by Kaspersky, sports a number of features that distinguish it from similar file-encrypting malware.First of all, Critoni, identified by […]
A presentation on cracking the anonymity of the TOR network scheduled to be held at the upcoming Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas has been cancelled. The presentation, titled ‘You Don’t Have to be the NSA to Break Tor: Deanonymizing Users on a Budget’, has been pulled from the schedule – a relatively rare […]
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