Rochester Institute of Technology cybersecurity professor Billy Brumley is helping shed light on dark corners of the internet. Brumley and a multidisciplinary group of researchers from around the ...

New research shows that someone has been running hundreds of malicious servers on the Tor network, potentially in an attempt to de-anonymize users and unmask their web activity. As first reported by ...

There are two sides to the internet. One is littered with cookies, targeted adware, and other tracking devices. The other is dark. So dark, you may remain anonymous. But to scientists, the activity on ...

The Tor Project has explained its recent decision to remove multiple network relays that represented a threat to the safety and security of all Tor network users. Tor network relays are routing points ...

Security researchers have identified a botnet controlled by its creators over the Tor anonymity network. It’s likely that other botnet operators will adopt this approach, according to the team from ...

Identifying users who access Tor hidden services—websites that are only accessible inside the Tor anonymity network—is easier than de-anonymizing users who use Tor to access regular Internet websites.

The Tor network is in danger of being swamped by criminals abusing its anonymity to hide an underworld of parasitic botnets, malicious command and control and ‘darknet’ markets, according to research ...

German news outlets reported that police were able to de-identify a Tor user involved in a child sexual abuse network, but the Tor Project says the techniques used appear to rely on an outdated Tor ...

The Tor Project has published details about a newly introduced system called Congestion Control that promises to eliminate speed limits on the network. This new system is up and running in the Tor ...