Recently, many people have been having issues with Tor network connectivity and performance, such as onion and i2p sites loading slower or not loading at all. Tor Projects Executive Director Isabela Dias Fernandes revealed that a wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been targeting the network since July 2022. These attacks have caused users to not be able to load pages or access onion services. The Tor team is working hard to mitigate the impacts and defend the network from these attacks, as the methods and targets of the attacks have changed over time. The identity of the threat actor(s) behind the attacks is still unknown. The Tor Network team will be expanded to include two new members to help address this issue. I2P, another anonymous communications network, has also been dealing with a massive attack for the last three days. This attack has caused performance and connectivity problems, as the attacker is flooding the network with malicious floodfill routers. Java I2P routers are handling the issues better than i2pd routers, and various mitigations should appear in dev builds of both Java and C++ routers in the next week. The attack is starting, stopping, and changing several times a day.
This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 20:42:03 +0000