Tor exit relays hijacked

SSH connections made over Tor exit relays (OpenSSH and other SSH clients)

Attackers hijack over 300 Tor exit relays to intercept SSH connections

Do this now

Check vendor advisories for a fix and avoid routing SSH connections over Tor until resolved.

First seen: 21 Oct 2026
Last update: 26 Oct 2026, 11:34 UTC
Source: news
On the menu as: OpenSSH

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## Tor exit relays hijacked
Severity: unknown. Patch status: fix status unknown.
Affected: SSH connections made over Tor exit relays (OpenSSH and other SSH clients)

Attackers hijack over 300 Tor exit relays to intercept SSH connections

## Steps
1. This touches infrastructure (openssh). Look in terraform, ansible, cloud-init, Dockerfiles and docs for the product and version we run. If it isn't in the repo, say so and list what a human should check on the box.
2. No source names a fix yet; check the vendor advisory. Until one ships: restrict network access to it.

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

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Sources: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/attackers-hijacked-over-300-tor-exit.html
https://pwned.coffee/i/tor-exit-relays-hijacked

Timeline

26 Oct 2026, 11:34 UTC
If you logged into SSH with a password over Tor between 1 and 5 Oct and accepted a changed host key, change that password.
21 Oct 2026
First reported.

Receipt

Exploitation: No known exploitation
Score: No CVSS published yet: severity unknown.
Last checked: 26 Oct 2026, 13:17 UTC

Sources: KEV – CVE record – Vendor –

Sources

feeds.feedburner.com: Attackers Hijacked Over 300 Tor Exit Relays to Intercept SSH Connections

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