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Tor, an anonymous communications platform, has been experiencing DDoS attacks for the past 7 months causing outages and slowdowns for users.
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The attacks can be severe, causing slow page loads or pages not loading at all.
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The Tor project engineers are working to combat the problem, but the methods and targets are constantly changing.
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No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks and Tor has not been able to determine the identity or motives of the attackers.
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Some users suspect nation-states may be behind the attacks due to similar issues being faced by another project.
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The peer-to-peer network I2P has also been under heavy DDoS attacks for at least 3 days.
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The attacks have caused some I2P routers to crash and resulted in poor performance or complete unavailability to some users.
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The I2P network has been targeted with a sybil attack causing widespread denial of service.
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The attack has degraded the performance of the network but it remains intact and usable.
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Mitigations are expected to appear in the next week in dev builds of both Java and C++ routers.