Mevade botnet miscalculated effect on Tor network, says Damballa

The migration of the ‘Mevade’ botnet to use the Tor anonymity network was most likely a botched attempt to hide that has ended up having the opposite effect, security firm Damballa has speculated.

News that something was afoot came after a huge spike on Tor from 19 August onwards, which caused a doubling of traffic on a single day to just over one million connections per day. Three weeks later and Tor’s daily connections have hit 4 million per day, with no end to the rise in sight.