The pair will be presenting their research at the Def Con hacking conference in August. These modified nodes allow whoever is behind them-perhaps law enforcement, hackers or other researchers-to find the addresses of sites that are supposed to be secret. But sometimes people deliberately modify their HSDir to keep a record of all the sites it spots.Ĭops could do this to find new child pornography sites, or hackers to hunt fresh targetsīy setting up honeypots in the Tor network, Guevara Noubir, a professor from the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University, and Amirali Sanatinia, a PhD candidate also from Northeastern, discovered an armada of Tor hidden service directories that are spying on dark web sites. When set up properly, these directories don't record or log the addresses of the services themselves, allowing the dark web sites to, hopefully, remain undiscovered.
At the time of writing, there are over 3,000 nodes with the HSDir flag, according to figures from the Tor Project, the non-profit that maintains the Tor software. Typically, a Tor user reaches out to these HSDirs, which store descriptors for various hidden services, in order to visit whatever dark web site they're after.
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