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The clearnet and dark web payment portals operated by the Conti ransomware group have gone down in what appears to be an attempt to shift to new infrastructure after details about the gang’s inner workings and its members were made public. According to MalwareHunterTeam, “while both the clearweb and Tor domains of the leak site […]
Amongst privacy enthusiasts, the Tor network is a popular means to browse the internet anonymously. However, time and again, vulnerabilities have been found in the Tor network that allow hackers to exploit it. A new study has revealed that a hacker or a nation-sponsored bad actor can degrade the performance of the Tor network for […]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has identified dark web users after they downloaded media through a file sharing services. The DHS obtained the IP addresses of several suspects that visited a child porn site hosted in the Tor network. According to court filings, the suspects shared links to password-protected child pornography media on the Ziifile […]
FOR THE PAST few years, Trevor Paglen has been at the vanguard of a movement of fine artists who have led gallery-goers to grapple with the realities of online privacy and government spying. Now he’s gone beyond using museums to merely observe and study surveillance—he’s enlisting those same institutions to fight it. Since 2014, Paglen […]
Short Bytes: The Dark Web sites running with .onion domain are now much safer to visit. Now, .onion has got a Special Use Domain status that grants it an official recognition and the websites are eligible for security certificates like the ordinary sites. The Dark Web is often painted as a place that is scary […]
Short Bytes: A report from IBM researchers has shown that the use of Tor network is on the rise. As a result, the growth of malicious traffic and hacking attacks originating from the Tor network is higher than ever. The United States government helped in the creation of The Onion Router and it funds it regularly for its development. Many […]
Short Bytes: Traffic fingerprinting is a technique used to sniff the web traffic by analyzing the data packets’ flow pattern- without removing the encryption. This technique has been recently used successfully to break the layers of anonymity of the Tor network users and hidden services. The Tor network is one of the most used popular system […]