[tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI
Eugen Leitl
eugen at leitl.org
Mon Oct 7 01:02:01 PDT 2013
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 05:55:02AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
> We know silk road was attacked with spam and malware. That it was
We know that Freedom Hosting platform was compromised, and
dropped malware via a known vulnerability in the TBB.
We do not know how exactly TSR was taken down.
There are reasons to suspect that the official story
might be a parallel construct.
> attacked with spam, suggests that malware did not suffice.
The rise in Tor traffic well predates the events, and seems
to be entirely attributable to C&C traffic of a botnet.
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