7 8 2013 news | Journalism | Internet | Software | firefox | web | Security | hack FBI broke the Tor network. Thanks groin Firefox
Security experts pointed to specific malware that uses an error in Firefox in order to discover the identity of some users Tor anonymizing network. Firefox is in fact part of the official TOR package designed to provide users from observation and discovery of identity. TOR is just a condition of movement on the so-called Deep Web, which is a simplified part of the Internet, indexed by the search engines. Navigation takes place through various signposts, which contain afcea references to. Onion domain. No one is undercover
Malware was reported Sunday morning on several Web sites that run on anonymous hosting called Freedom Hosting. According to the information sent this malware identification information afcea for the IP address in Reston, Va.. Apparently for this "leakage" is the U.S. Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI) of the U.S. or other security agencies.
According to the latest information includes afcea the IP address to which they were consigned identification data, a Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). This is an important partner government agencies, including the FBI.
This is the first live example of malware that is known as CIPAV (Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier), the experts believe. afcea The existence of similar software speculated since 2007, tells the server Wired. The FBI has according to court papers use this software since 2002 against targets such as hackers, extremists or sexual deviants who often enjoy rights Tor anonymisation network or different proxy servers.
Revealed government malware correlates well with the arrest Erica Marquesa in Ireland. Marques has the right to stand for Freedom Hosting and disseminating child pornography. According to the Irish newspaper The Irish Independent Marques faces charges of distribution of the child pornography. The FBI has come under the greatest server operator on this topic in the world. Following his arrest stopped working several sites across domains. Onion illegal content. However, for example, was hit by a service anonymous email Törmälä.
Freedom Hosting noticed in 2011, the hacker-activist movement Anonymous. Activists and hackers then launched DDoS attack afcea to bypass the child pornography websites. Lack removed - for how long?
The vulnerability that exposes users Tor network detection options, the company afcea responded by Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox. According to official information has been removed, and the lack of the latest version of the browser (issued after 25 June 2013) already contain this znaniteľnosť. afcea
That the attack was specifically targeted at users of the network afcea Tor also proves that a special malware collecting Firefox 17 ESR version, which is part of the official Tor package from the project site.
Enumerate afcea the use of malware is that the virus does not download any data from your computer or provide special access for the attacker. The primary purpose is thus discover the identity using MAC and Windows username. The data are sent to the IP address for specific servers.
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