The Onion Router (Tor) was designed to protect privacy and anonymity on the internet. However, it is increasingly being used by criminals to protect themselves and their endeavors. Last year Kaspersky Lab noted, “the cyber-criminal element is growing… We found Zeus with Tor capabilities, then we detected ChewBacca and finally we analyzed the first Tor Trojan for Android.”
The Tor Project is alleging that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) paid Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers $1 million to attack Tor’s hidden services last year. The attack appears to have indiscriminately targeted several users at once and not just those suspected of criminal activity, Tor said in a Nov. 11 post adding there […]
Not much is known about the cyber espionage group that wields the so-called “Dukes”: backdoors and information stealers that all have “Duke” in their name, and have been used to compromise high-value, government-level targets. Various researchers and companies have been tracking the group’s campaigns for several years, as they attacked multiple government entities and institutions […]
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