Brave browser Tor feature leaked .Onion queries to ISPs

According to an IT security researcher, the Chromium-based, privacy-focused web browser Brave had a vulnerability that was leaking DNS requests. This was later confirmed by PortSwigger’s Director of Research, James Kettle, and CERT/CC vulnerability analyst Will Dormann.

Due to this, user activities on Tor anonymity network’s hidden servers, the Dark Web, were being exposed to their ISPs (internet service providers).

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