News A mysterious group has hijacked Tor exit nodes to perform SSL stripping attacks

Since January 2020, a mysterious threat actor has been adding servers to the Tor network in order to perform SSL stripping attacks on users accessing cryptocurrency-related sites through the Tor Browser.

The group has been so prodigious and persistent in their attacks, that by May 2020, they ran a quarter of all Tor exit relays — the servers through which user traffic leaves the Tor network and accesses the public internet.

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A mysterious group has hijacked Tor exit nodes to perform SSL stripping attacks