01-12-2016 00:07 via theverge.com

Tor Browser vulnerability used to attack visitors to a child porn site

A child pornography site called Giftbox has been attacking its users with a newly discovered exploit in the Tor Browser, according to an exclusive report from Motherboard. According to one user, the exploit was present on the main page, giving attackers a clear way to plant malware on any computer that visited the site.
It’s not clear what the attackers used the exploit for, or what any resulting programs might have done, but such an exploit would have been an easy way for law enforcement
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