Mastodon Has A Serious SPAM Problem #YouTube
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Mastodon Has A Serious SPAM Problem
Over the past week or so there has been a serious spam problem hitting mastodon and rest of the fediverse especially misskey over on the japanese side of thi...YouTube
Paul L
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •Is this generalised across all Mastodon or is it mainly targeting "popular" users?
I ask because I haven't seen any of the spam here yet, but then I rarely visit the federated feed.
So I presume I will only see it if someone I follow actually posts the spam or boosts it.
Otherwise the spammer would have to "at" me for it to be in my mentions or notifications.
BUT I don't want to downplay the problem, is there anything else going on that I've not covered?
Brodie Robertson
in reply to Paul L • • •Paul L
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •I was also interested in the aspect of spoofing as their intended target, and hoping that retaliation from 3rd parties is what actually overwhelms their intended target rather than solely relying on direct methods.
In the network space we've had distributed amplification attacks which work on the same concept but in terms of (say) IP or DNS protocol amongst others.
Smurf and
DNS amplification attacks are 2 of the better known (and old) ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Amplification
cyber attack disrupting service by overloading the provider of the service
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