Security News > 2023 > February > Tor and I2P networks hit by wave of ongoing DDoS attacks
Tor Project's Executive Director Isabela Dias Fernandes revealed on Tuesday that a wave of distributed denial-of-service attacks has been targeting the network since at least July 2022.
"We have been working hard to mitigate the impacts and defend the network from these attacks. The methods and targets of these attacks have changed over time and we are adapting as these attacks continue."
While the goal of these ongoing attacks or the identity of the threat actor(s) behind them are not yet known, Fernandes said the Tor team will keep tweaking the network's defenses to address this ongoing issue.
Tor is not the only anonymous communications network currently targeted by DDoS attacks.
As a result, I2P users might also experience issues due to some i2pd routers crashing with OOM errors when hit by this Denial-of-Service attack.
"As you already know, the I2P network has been targeted by a Denial-of-Service attack for the past ~3 days. The attacker is flooding the network with malicious floodfill routers, which are responding incorrectly or not at all to other routers and feeding the network false information," one of the I2P subreddit's mods said yesterday.
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