DoS attacks against most used default Tor bridges could be very cheap

From securityaffairs.co

Tor bridges attacks

Researchers explained that carrying out attacks against the most used default Tor bridges would cost threat actors $17,000 per month.

According to security researchers Rob Jansen from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Tavish Vaidya and Micah Sherr from Georgetown University, launching denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against most commonly used default Tor bridges would cost attackers $17,000 per month.

DoS attacks could be used for preventing users to access the popular anonymizing network or to carry out attacks to de-anonymize Tor users with techniques such as traffic correlation.

For a modest sum, threat actors could target Tor bridges saturating their resources and causing significant degradation of network performance.

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