How to hack tor hidden services

1. Can Tor network be hacked?
2. What are hidden services on Tor?
3. Are Tor hidden services secure?
4. Which tool extract onion links from Tor hidden services and identify illegal activities?

Can Tor network be hacked?

The usage of Tor could increase the level of anonymity, but a hacker can always track users from their Bitcoin payments. “We demonstrate that the use of Tor does not rule out the attack as Tor connections can be prohibited for the entire network.

What are hidden services on Tor?

Tor hidden service allow users to publish their service without revealing their identity (IP address). Users can connect to this service using rendezvous point without knowing the publisher of service and revealing their identities.

Are Tor hidden services secure?

Yes. This is different case from communicating with a server on Internet. Because your Tor node can verify the authenticity of the hidden service private key (by using the hash from its . onion name), it is possible to securely encrypt the information end-to-end.

Which tool extract onion links from Tor hidden services and identify illegal activities?

TorBot [17], an open source intelligence tool, is used to crawl the dark web content based on the onion link extracted in the above step.