Researchers Found Over 100 Snooping Tor HSDir Relays!!!!!!

Researchers from Northeastern University had announced their findings of over 100 spy nodes targeting hidden services in the Tor network attempting to compromise websites on the dark web.

https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/07/07/researchers-found-over-100-snooping-tor-hsdir-relays/


Comments


[5 Points] dyedalive:

So what does that mean for us?


[4 Points] None:

SQUUUUUWK


[3 Points] GotMeSomeAlpandMDMA:

Came for the Bahahahahaha!!!!'s and was pleasantly suprised


[1 Points] TheRealDealUSA:

What about the markets pulling BTC data from the clear net websites?

They can't be hiding the servers behind a whonix workstation either otherwise cloudflare would block the BTC prices from showing, is this going to make those less secure now thanks to these relays?


[1 Points] Ethereality_DNM:

The article is somewhat scattered. I do think what they are getting at is the fact that there are HSDIR nodes that attempt to automatically exploit/anonymize hidden services as soon as they're online. This has nothing to do with exit nodes as they are not used in hidden services.

Most people are unaware of this however. The majority assume that a hidden service will not be known by anyone until they advertise the onion address which is false. Tor advertises your onion address to HSDIRs as soon as you change your torrc to host a hidden service and start tor.

tl;dr: setup and harden your server completely before you install and configure tor on it.