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GoBalance Flaw Lets Attackers Hijack .onion Addresses by Recovering Tor-Format Keys
A GoBalance signing flaw lets attackers recover Tor-format .onion private keys from public descriptors and hijack affected site addresses.
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A bug in GoBalance, a tool many dark-web sites use to stay reachable during attacks, lets anyone work out the secret key that controls a site's .onion address using only public information, and then take that address over.
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