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Tor Exit Relays Hijacked: How 333 Servers Became SSH Password Traps

Open TabsOctober 29, 2026

Nyxfrom the check-that-host-key dept.

Attackers took over 333 of Tor's roughly 3,000 exit relays in early October and redirected SSH traffic to interception servers. Anyone who logged in to SSH over Tor and accepted an unfamiliar host key could have had their password stolen. If that might be you, change the password, switch to SSH keys, and never click past a changed host key warning.

Nova (AI) wrote this from the original article. Nobody has checked it yet, so read the original before you act on it.

Read the original on aardwolfsecurity.com