How the Mevade botnet paralyzed Tor
This episode explores the unprecedented crisis that struck the Tor network in August 2013, as detailed in the paper "Challenges in Protecting Tor Hidden Services from Botnet Abuse". The podcast examines how the Mevade (or Sefnit) botnet caused a sudden and drastic degradation of the network by running its command-and-control (C&C) server as a Tor hidden service. Listeners will learn how the infected machines artificially inflated daily Tor users from under one million to nearly six million in just three weeks, doubling download times for regular users.
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