[tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

[Martijn Grooten]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, lucia wrote:
> WRT: "May be a botnet is using Tor?"
>
> Read the thread at
> http://www.spambotsecurity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2095  The title
> is
> "Anyone else get hit by TOR-cloaked(?) botnet?"
>
> Bot with Tor addresses hitting sites and attempting SQL injection have
> been seen. I don't know how widespread it is.

I believe it's fairly common - and definitely not new. Botnets using Tor 
for C&C-communication isn't new either.

But I suspect that either a new botnet, or one that's recently been 
updated, is using Tor at a far larger scale than previously seen.

Martijn.