A Tor Vulnerability May Have Enabled Dark Web Bitcoin Theft
Cointelegraph
Published Aug 11, 2020 05:56PM ET
Updated Aug 11, 2020 07:40PM ET
According to recently published research, an attacker has found vulnerabilities in the Tor browser network that might have allowed them to steal Bitcoin (BTC) from users. Tor was developed by the U.S. government for anonymous internet communication and has since been adopted by privacy advocates. Because of its privacy-preserving features, it is also popular with the denizens of the Dark Web. Many in the crypto community rely on Tor, entrusting their Bitcoin transactions to its security and anonymity.
However, according to nusenu, who discovered this attack, this might not be a good choice. Tor protects user anonymity by routing data through a number of relays. Tor exit relays are the last hop in this process, and the only ones that get to see the actual destination of the Tor user. Starting in January, a malicious party allegedly began running a large number of Tor exit relays, peaking at 23% of the total in May.
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