Tor browser download official website4/17/2023 ![]() Chinese Internet users wishing to preserve their anonymity have let themselves be tricked into not respecting this basic precaution: files should only be downloaded from a trusted source. ![]() Remember that in China, the WeChat account has become essential in people’s daily lives, and almost serves as an identity card. Worse still, the control center to which all this data is sent can obtain the QQ and WeChat account credentials of the target computer. As the malware version of Tor is configured not to be anonymized at all, data entered into forms and browsing history are stored on the computer, and sent to a remote server. Fittingly, the OnionPoison-inspired virus gives control of the victims’ computer to the hackers. The malware found on YouTube is used to determine the identity of Internet usersĮxperts from Kaspersky Lab, the company that wanted to launch a smartphone “impossible to hack”, estimate that the malware will have taken two months to make its first victims. As it is not possible to download Tor Browser through official channels in China, the Tor Project site being blocked there, the worst visitors will hasten to click on the link to the virus. The description of the video contains two links: the first leads to the official site, while the second leads to a file sharing site. The latter was the first result of the “Tor Browser” search in China. OnionPoison is anyway a success for hackers, since the channel on which the link was shared is followed by 180,000 subscribers and the offending video has been viewed by 64,000. Could OnionPoison, this is the name of this malware distribution campaign, be sponsored by state authorities? We cannot be sure, but note all the same that the hackers specifically target citizens of the Middle Kingdom who wish to go unnoticed (the program installed on the host computer only targets IPs from China) ![]() Ironically enough, the link to the malware would be made available to visitors in the information of a YouTube video teaching them how to stay anonymous online. ![]()
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