Russian Secret Intelligence Contractor Tried to Deanonymize Tor Users
Hackers have leaked data obtained from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), showing that a contractor called SyTech was trying to deanonymize users of the Tor anonymity network, as reported by Forbes. The group, called 0v1ru$, stole 7.5 terabytes of data by gaining access to SyTech's entire network.
The hacking group shared the data with Digital Revolution, a different hacking group that last year breached the servers of another FSB contractor, called Quantum. Digital Revolution then shared more details about SyTech's data on Twitter and with Russian journalists.
SyTech has been working on the Tor deanonymization project, Nautilus-S, since 2012. Academics from the Swedish university Karlstad were able to identify 25 malicious servers that attempted to deanonymize Tor users. Eighteen of those servers were located in Russia.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 23 2019, @09:31PM (1 child)
There are like a dozen different companies going by SyTech, but the one in question is sytech.ru.
http://archive.is/bf8Uu [archive.is]
https://web.archive.org/web/*/sytech.ru [archive.org]
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(Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday July 23 2019, @11:24PM
According to numerous sources, hackers did not breach FSB. They breached a private enterprise who presumably does contracts for FSB. Fake news at it's finest from Forbes, IMHO.
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