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 things and the story behind it is absolutely wild."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCwq9e-H5M

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Lemmy #spam #skid #scriptKiddies #DoS #security #openSocialNetworking #misskey #BrodieRobertson #YouTube

PS: if you like Brodie's content, he can also be found on Mastodon: @BrodieOnLinux

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

Due to #spam and #antisemitism, the following server is recommended for #Fediblock:

• assortedflotsam.com

I discovered this server when I was following up on a spam report, and noticed that they also host anti-semitic content as well.

Here’s an example of a spam account that has not been removed, despite my reports, and has been functioning since February 7th:

https://assortedflotsam.com/@yqqwe/

And here’s an example of anti-semitism:

https://assortedflotsam.com/@Oeneus/111970665477663496

Screenshot is also attached.

The big wave of spams is over? Thank you FediAdmins for doing what you do!

#krita #ArtWithOpenSource #FediArt #MastoArt #spam

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Anyway, a throwback for anyone wanting a little more.

These guys have been sending bomb threats to the Japanese government impersonating as KuronekoServer developers before the attack went big. #spam#infrastructure#fediblockmeta#cybersec#cybersecurity#infosec#spam#infrastructure#fediblockmeta#cybersec#cybersecurity#infosec

Instances used for the #spam wave to be domain blocked until this is done.

Day 1 only from Misskey:
https://m.mxin.moe 🧽
https://cunnyborea.top ☠️
https://social.cutefunny.net ☠️

Day 2 only from Mastodon:
https://troet.cafe 🧽
https://det.social 🧽
https://mstdn.business 🧽
https://mastodon-swiss.org

troet.cafe - Mastodon

Hallo im troet.cafe! Dies ist die derzeit größte deutschsprachige Mastodon Instanz zum tröten, neue Leute kennenlernen, sich auszutauschen und Spaß zu haben.

^{Mastodon, gehostet auf troet.cafe}

Thinking about multi-server aggregations and recommendation systems on decentralized online social networks like the #Fediverse.

Here we see an exploit: someone has created hundreds of fake accounts on different servers to spam the same tag.

#spam

yes.

also hi brodie this is like the 3rd time we're (probably) involved in a video of yours again since you're gonna be making a video on this #fediblock#fediblockmeta#fediadmins#fediadmin#mastoadmin#mastoadmins#spam

RE: Kuroneko incident

#fediadmins are advised to temporarily disable sign-ups for now, or implement some anti-spam measure to limit signups to not get spammed.
Currently they are targeting #misskey and #mastodon, but other #activitypub servers may soon be targeted.

More details will be posted soon. Stay tuned. #fediblock#fediadmin#fedadmins#mastodadmin#misskeyadmin#cybersecurity#spam

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If automated scanning fails, Rozenshtein allows that this could cause "greater consolidation" of Mastodon servers to create the economies of scale to pay for more active, human moderation, which he compares to the consolidation of email that arose as a result of the #spam-wars. But the spam-wars have been catastrophic for email as a federated system and produced all kinds of opportunities for mischief by the big players:

https://doctorow.medium.com/dead-letters-73924aa19f9d

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Dead letters - Cory Doctorow - Medium

It feels like only yesterday that we were living through the Substack bubble, as mailing lists enjoyed a new renaissance (rebranded as “newsletters”), a tangible expression of the techlash and our…

^{Cory Doctorow (Medium)}