Two hackers are claiming to show how they are able to deanonymize Tor users with only $3,000.
At next month’s Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Alexander Volynkin and Michael McCord, it will demonstrate how the distributed nature, combined with newly discovered shortcomings in design and implementation of the Tor network, can be abused to break Tor anonymity. According to the Daily Dot, with “a handful of powerful servers and a couple gigabit links”, thousands of Tor clients and hidden services can be revealed “within a couple of months”.
There was little detail on specifics, but Tor community members are hoping that they’ve followed responsible disclosure practices and have notified Tor’s developers of any potential exploits that can put the anonymity of millions of users at risk.
