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Exploit vendor drops Tor Browser zero-day on Twitter

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2018-09-10 21:32:00
Security

A company that sells exploits to government agencies drops Tor Browser zero-day [zdnet.com] 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.


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