Catalin Cimpanu reports:
The Tor Project says that regular Tor browser users are not affected by a deanonymization attack used by German law enforcement to catch the administrator of a dark web CSAM forum named Boystown.
German TV network NDR reported on Wednesday that German police had been secretly recording traffic entering the Tor network via nodes located in Germany over the past years.
According to technical documents obtained by NDR reporters and reviewed by security experts from Germany’s infamous Chaos Computer Club (CCC), authorities used a “timing attack” to analyze traffic entering and leaving Tor nodes and correlate users visiting certain Tor sites to their real-life IP addresses.
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