Category: Tor
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Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P
Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed to anonymize and secure online communications. I2P users started reporting disruptions in the network around the same time the Kimwolf botmasters…
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Tor Adopts Galois Onion Encryption to Strengthen Defense Against Online Attacks
Tor Adopts Galois Onion Encryption to Strengthen Defense Against Online Attacks The Tor Project has announced a significant cryptographic overhaul, retiring its legacy relay encryption algorithm after decades of service and replacing it with Counter Galois Onion (CGO). This research-backed encryption design defends against a broader class of sophisticated online attackers. Tor’s relay encryption serves…