Fake Tor Project website delivers malware instead of anonymity

  • 14 August 2014
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Comment: For those whom use tor be carfull as this website is deceptive
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Author/ Zeljka Zorz HNS Managing Editor/ Posted on 14.08.2014
 
A computer science student has discovered an almost perfect copy of The Tor Project's website, offering malware for download instead of the Tor Browser Bundle and collecting donations that should rightfully go to Tor developers.

Tipped off about the existence of the fake website by a friend, Julien Voisin downloaded the purported Tor Browser Bundle (torbrowser-install-3.6.3_en-US.exe) and managed to reverse engineer it.

What he discovered is that the malware can be commanded to download and upload files, update itself, make screenshots, execute system commands, reboot and restart, upload directories and get drives, and launch new connections.

 
 
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