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Using network investigative techniques to unmask users
Operation Onion Peeler— the FBI’s investigation that targeted Silk Road and related Tor hidden services—did not “break” Tor’s cryptography but demonstrated that targeted law-enforcement techniques, op...
The FBI uses a layered toolkit to deanonymize dark‑web users that combines malware-style Network Investigative Techniques (NITs), network and timing analysis (including controlling or observing Tor no...
Law enforcement agencies use a toolbox of technical and traditional investigative methods to , including running Tor relays to perform timing/correlation analysis, deploying malware or against endpoin...
Intelligence agencies have combined traffic-correlation (controlling or observing entry and exit points), active network manipulation (BGP hijacks/interception), targeted malware and “network investig...
Tor remains a designed-to-anonymize network that complicates attribution, but adversaries — states, criminals, and malware authors — have technical means to reduce that anonymity under some conditions...