![]() Per the report, the hacker is using her/his position as a major exit relay host to stage sophisticated person-in-the-middle attacks, stripping websites of encryption and giving her/him full unrestricted access to traffic passing through her/his servers. The exit relay is the final stage that connects users to their requested websites. The Tor Network provides anonymous internet access with voluntarily run relays that route traffic in order to obfuscate users’ traceable and identifiable IP addresses. ![]() A single malicious entity controls nearly a quarter of all nodes used on the anonymous internet provider Tor Network and is using its position to steal bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Ī cybersecurity analyst, using the pseudonym “nusenu,” said in a report this week a hacker now controls approximately 23% of the Tor Network’s exit relay capacity. ![]()
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