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Unprecedented Spike In TOR .Onion Nodes (profwoodward.org)

Posted by whipslash on from the tor-files dept.

Martin S. writes: The Tor project is reporting an unprecedented rise in unique .Onion nodes, rising from around 40k to 60k in just a few days, says security researcher Professor Woodward. I wonder is this could possible be related to Shari Steel plan to push Tor mainstream, as reported on /. a few days ago.

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  1. Encryption trojans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There's a recent spike in encryption trojans, too. The recovery-keys are provided through TOR.
    e.g.
    http://1.f.ix.de/scale/geometry/695/q75/imgs/18/1/7/5/3/8/0/5/locky-desktop-9dc10fc8250d6db0.png

    Looks like its generating specific servers to get the keys from for every victim.