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20% Of The Dark Web Taken Down By Hacker, Here’s How He Did It

Short Bytes: An alleged Anonymous hacker has taken down about a fifth of the Dark Web. He did so by breaching the servers of popular Dark Web hosting service Freedom Hosting II, which powers about 15-20% .onion sites. The hacker targeted the service as the websites contained a large collection of child porn. The vigilante hacker has […]

Anonymous hacker breached Freedom Hosting II and taken down 10,613 .onion sites

Anonymous hacker breached Freedom Hosting II and taken down 10,613 .onion sites. Hackers focused on the prominent Tor hosting provider since it was giving its services to an expansive number of sites sharing child pornography image. The cyber assault was initially spotted by Sarah Jamie Lewis, a security scientist at mascherari.press, who saw the mass […]