For the previous seven months, nameless communications platform Tor has been experiencing various kinds of Distributed Denial of Service (opens in new tab) (DDoS) assaults inflicting outages and slowdowns for customers, the corporate has revealed.

In an organization weblog submit (opens in new tab), Tor mission govt director Isabela Dias Fernandes mentioned the assaults could be typically be so extreme that customers would expertise gradual web page hundreds, or in additional excessive instances, the pages wouldn’t load in any respect.

The mission’s engineers are “working laborious” to sort out the issue, she added, but in addition mentioned that the strategies and targets change over time, forcing the mission to adapt because the assaults proceed. 

I2P attacked, too

Thus far, nobody stepped ahead to say duty for the assaults, and Tor was not capable of decide the attackers’ identities, or motives. “We’ll proceed to extend and tweak defenses on the Tor community to fight this drawback,” Fernandes concluded. 

Whereas Tor may not know who’s behind the assaults, customers suspect nation-states might need one thing to do with it, principally as a result of one other related mission has been experiencing related aggravating circumstances. 

BleepingComputer additionally reported that the peer-to-peer community Invisible Web Mission (I2P) has additionally been below heavy DDoS assaults, for no less than three days. The assaults pressured some i2pd routers to crash with out-of-memory errors, rendering the service poor, or utterly unusable, to some customers. 

“As you already know, the I2P community has been focused by a Denial-of-Service assault for the previous ~three days. The attacker is flooding the community with malicious floodfill routers, that are responding incorrectly or by no means to different routers and feeding the community false info,” the mission introduced in a Reddit thread. 

“This ends in efficiency and connectivity issues, as a result of the floodfills present peer info to the members within the community. The result’s a type of sybil assault which is used to trigger widespread denial of service. This assault has degraded the efficiency of the community but it surely stays intact and usable. Java I2P routers nonetheless look like dealing with the problems higher than i2pd routers. Varied mitigations ought to seem in dev builds of each Java and C++ routers within the subsequent week.”

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Through: BleepingComputer (opens in new tab)