Researchers discover Spoiled Onions: Evil Tor exit relays spying on Facebook users

Tor, The Onion Router that helps protect users’ privacy, just can’t catch a break lately. First Microsoft remotely deleted Tor from Windows machines during an attempt to takedown the Sefnit botnet. Then the research paper, Spoiled Onions: Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays [pdf], explained how evil nodes in Russia were being used to spy on Facebook users as well as Tor users browsing other sites. Microsoft…
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