• bartolomeo@suppo.fi
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    9 months ago

    states the LockBit .onion site, now controlled by British officials.

    How does one hijack a .onion site?

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      9 months ago

      You don’t hijack a .onion site. You pwn the server which hosts .onion site. Give you full access to site. You hijack .onion because its very secure

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          By pwning it. You dont have to find it to pwn it. You just have to be able to send data to it, which everyone can do because whats the point of having a server if noone can interact with it. The attacker just interacts with it in a way that manipulates it to execution attacker controlled code. So for a .onion website for example you find a vulnerability in the websites code and exploit it to make the server the website is running on do what you want.

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          9 months ago

          In simple terms you can’t trace back the server useless the webadmin did some stupidity or vulnerability

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              Nah nothing like that. I mean that they’re sharing info to friends willy nilly and some cops got wind of it. That’s kinda what happens to some of the dark web guys who get caught. It’s very rarely something very technical it’s just their own idiocy for reusing emails, transferring funds incorrectly making it traceable, Delivering sus packages all at once to usps

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      9 months ago

      Outside of controlling and rewriting the protocol: steal the keys used to generate the route or take over control of the server that hosts it