Security researchers have identified a botnet controlled by its creators over the Tor anonymity network. It’s likely that other botnet operators will adopt this approach, according to the team from ...

Bitcoin’s public and immutable nature necessitates the return of mixnets to achieve true network-level privacy. Source: Nym Technologies SA Bitcoin was initially thought by many to be anonymous ...

The Tor Project has published details about a newly introduced system called Congestion Control that promises to eliminate speed limits on the network. This new system is up and running in the Tor ...

The Tor network is in danger of being swamped by criminals abusing its anonymity to hide an underworld of parasitic botnets, malicious command and control and ‘darknet’ markets, according to research ...

German news outlets reported that police were able to de-identify a Tor user involved in a child sexual abuse network, but the Tor Project says the techniques used appear to rely on an outdated Tor ...

Rochester Institute of Technology cybersecurity professor Billy Brumley is helping shed light on dark corners of the internet. Brumley and a multidisciplinary group of researchers from around the ...

Identifying users who access Tor hidden services—websites that are only accessible inside the Tor anonymity network—is easier than de-anonymizing users who use Tor to access regular Internet websites.

New research shows that someone has been running hundreds of malicious servers on the Tor network, potentially in an attempt to de-anonymize users and unmask their web activity. As first reported by ...

Crypto donations to privacy-focused non-profit The Tor Project surged 841% in 2021 compared with the previous year, Tor said in a blog post from Monday. The Tor Project steers the development of the ...

Kaspersky Lab has spotted malware for the Android mobile operating system employing the TOR anonymity network, a development previously only seen on Windows. TOR, short for The Onion Router, is ...

The so-called darknet, which is accessible via the anonymizing Tor network, has a reputation for being home to many disreputable sites. But now the biggest social network in the world is available via ...