Tor , the internet used specifically for seclusion and namelessness , justwarnedusers of an attack meant to deanonymize citizenry on the service . Anyone who used Tor from February 2014 through this July 4 can assume they were impacted .
This is very sorry news for Tor , which is acclaim for its ability to hide users from surveillance .
Tor believe this attack come fromresearchersat Carnegie Mellon ’s Computer Emergency Response Team , not an identity thief ( or , uh , the government activity ) . CERT investigator abruptly canceled a highly anticipated talking they were plump to give about the possible action of deanonymizing Tor at the Black Hat group discussion this year , kicking off guess that they ’d successfully pulled it off . Now it looks like they did . ( We ’ve touch CERT for confirmation and will update if they fess up . )
It ’s not decipherable how much data the attacks invite and stored , but it ’s scary hooey . Tor ca n’t say for sure incisively what the attackers unearthed , but it ’s not expect good . “ If this tone-beginning was in fact bear on to the research done by CERT / CMU for Black Hat , then – judge by the nonfigurative the research worker write for their presentment – the attack did successfully deanonymize users and hidden services , ” exponent for the Tor Project Runa Sandvik told me .
If this is the handiwork of CERT , it ’s about as near as a successful onset is going to get , because the research worker are n’t using it to dox Tor users . But the fact that this go down mean a malicious agent could ’ve gone to town on Tor … and maybe they already have . Ideally , this issue will avail Tor land up its security system to preclude that from materialize ; Russia is alreadytrying to deanonymize the electronic web .
If you use Tor , this is reason to be very implicated . You should check that you ’re using a reading that ’s no longer vulnerable . There arerecommended upgradesavailable that will end the security system loophole .
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