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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 11 2018, @12:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the land-of-tor dept.

A company that sells exploits to government agencies drops Tor Browser zero-day on Twitter after recent Tor Browser update renders exploit less valuable.

Zerodium, a company that buys and sells vulnerabilities in popular software, has published details today on Twitter about a zero-day vulnerability in the Tor Browser, a Firefox-based browser used by privacy-conscious users for navigating the web through the anonymity provided by the Tor network.

In a tweet, Zerodium said the vulnerability is a full bypass of the "Safest" security level of the NoScript extension that's included by default with all Tor Browser distributions.

NoScript is a browser extension that uses a whitelist approach to let the user decide from what domains the browser can execute JavaScript, Flash, Java, or Silverlight content. It is included with all Tor Browser distributions because it provides an extra layer of security for Tor Browser users.

Zerodium's Tor zero-day basically allows malicious code to run inside the Tor Browser by bypassing NoScript's script-blocking ability.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by edIII on Tuesday September 11 2018, @07:17PM (1 child)

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday September 11 2018, @07:17PM (#733258)

    This is why I think we should make it illegal to hold on to zero-days for our own avarice filled purposes. It should be treated no different as if I had knowledge of an impending murder, but chose to say nothing. If we forced responsible disclosure of zero-days and other such threats, then it would obviously lead to a more secure world. At least more secure than one with such exploits in the wild.

    Likewise, a corporation once dutifully informed, is obligated to either fix the bug immediately, or inform all of its customers. If a specific category of IoT device, a recall is issued.

    Right now it's like the Cold War, with corporations, governments, and hackers all vying for a stockpile of cyberweapons for their own purposes. Meanwhile, the world suffers.

    I hope this douchenozzle running the corporation gets head to toe herpes.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @11:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @11:25AM (#733556)

    Making it illegal won't make me stop holding them. In fact, i cant think of any illegal thing, that i won't do because its illegal. Usually its not the "illegal", that stops me, its the "unprofitable".

    "Meanwhile, the world suffers." - modernity discource detected, as if suffering was less before exploit brokers came into existence.

    The "more secure world" is a logical extreme, has nothing to do with reality.

    THERE EXISTS NO SECURITY, AND NEVER WILL EXIST

    the only thing that's real is WAR