In Italy, cybersecurity specialists found a vulnerability in the anonymous Tor network, which could lead to deanonization of service users. This is reported by the newspaper La Repubblica.
The vulnerability was confronted by the employee of the company We Are Segment Filippo Cavallarin (Filippo Cavallarin).
The Venetian IT security specialist discovered a gap in the network protocols of users of MacOS and Linux operating systems. Due to the vulnerability, it was possible to track the owners of network nodes.
Employees of We Are Segment reported the discovery of the developers Tor. Their discovery could end the existence of a service that was designed to preserve the anonymity of its users through encryption. They decided to make the story public only after the breach is eliminated. Developers after eliminating the problem thanked the "ethical hackers".