Bug in Brave Browser Expose Users’ Dark Web History

Introduced in June 2018, Brave’s Tor mode has enabled Brave users to gain anonymity when browsing the internet, encouraging them to have access to the .onion versions of legal websites such as Facebook, Wikipedia, and key news portals over the years. However, an unnamed security researcher reported in the research article, that Brave’s Tor mode had sent queries to DNS resolvers rather than Tor nodes on the open Network.

Read full article on E Hacking News

 


Date:

Categorie(s):