This move is intended to increase the cost of DoS attacks to unsustainable levels while prioritizing legitimate traffic and discouraging attack traffic. Introducing a proof-of-work mechanism will discourage attackers by making large-scale attacks costly and impractical. The Tor Project therefore encourages users to upgrade the Onion service to version 0.4.8.

Only a few days after a dramatic relaunch, Dread, a well-known forum focused on communicating about the dark web market, is once again offline for the same reason: what co-administrator HugBunter calls a "well-funded DDOS attack". The high volume of DDOS attacks, even though the site has been updated and revamped, is still indefensible.

The new solution for this Bitcoin wallet uses Tor to anonymously route traffic to exit nodes rather than relying on Tor's backend while calling for people to raise money to support the Tor network.

According to Dread administrator Paris, Tor's daemon nodes have gone offline en masse in recent days, making it easier for attackers to make sites like Dread inaccessible. ".

The current LockBit ransomware gang, still unable to resist the DDoS attack on their dark web site, has temporarily placed a message on one of their Tor domains seeking BT seed upload points.

In October 2021, we will release new Tor client stable versions for all supported series that will disable v2.