The Tor Project is preparing a fix for a bug that has been abused for the past years to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against dark web (.onion) websites. Barring any unforeseen ...

Little is known about how U.S. and European law enforcement shut down more than 400 websites, including Silk Road 2.0, which used technology that hides their true IP addresses. The websites were set ...

Researchers have developed a new technique that could allow attackers to determine with a high degree of accuracy which Tor websites users are accessing and where those websites are hosted. The new ...

The trust of the Tor anonymity network is in many cases only as strong as the individual volunteers whose computers form its building blocks. On Friday, researchers said they found at least 110 such ...

People use the Tor anonymity network to protect their privacy, but perhaps as much as half of all the Onion Router sites—and Tor Mail—are potentially compromised . . . and some hackers are pointing ...

While Tor remains something of an internet boogeyman—a misunderstood service most people think is only useful for hiring hitmen or buying drugs using cryptocurrencies—we found that many Tor sites ...

Starting with the release of Tor Browser 9.5, websites can have their alternate .onion addresses advertised to Tor desktop users who have the 'Onion Location' option enabled. Sites that add the .onion ...

What started in the mid-1990s to protect US intelligence communications online, later got developed and became the go-to protocol to protect user identity and secure online activities. The Onion ...

Attackers controlling entry nodes on the Tor network could find the location of hidden services or unmask users visiting them Researchers have developed a new technique that could allow attackers to ...