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   Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 22:31:18 JST Drew DeVault

   The massive rise in fraud, spam, DoS attacks, and malicious traffic generally across the entire internet in 2024 alone is of such a scale and variety that I cannot help but wonder if there is a nation state behind it

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 22:35:07 JST Drew DeVault

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     • calm.like.a.bomb

     @calm_bomb well, what I'm speculating on is that all of these apparently disparate cases of malicious traffic may be coming from one actor

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     calm.like.a.bomb (calm_bomb@metalhead.club)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 22:35:09 JST calm.like.a.bomb

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     @drewdevault Just one? I guess it's more than two for sure! It will be interesting to see what happens with all the elections this year.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 22:36:32 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @drewdevault AFAIK the fedi spam was just script kiddies (which isn't surprising both mastodon and misskey have essentially no spam filtering and instances have open-registration by default).
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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 22:38:20 JST Drew DeVault

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan right, but there's also a bunch of incidents with spam on SourceHut, GitHub, Codeberg, and other forge service providers that I keep regular contact with -- we're all seeing it, some patterns shared, others not

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 22:39:25 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @drewdevault Yeah, I'm only speaking about the fedi one, the forge spam on the other hand seems pretty weird, specially as like GitHub likely isn't at it's first spam wave.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 22:48:43 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan @drewdevault apparently the trigger was two Japanese script kiddies having a fight on Misskey and one of them decided the appropriate response was to DDoS the entire network.
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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 23:04:20 JST Drew DeVault

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • Polychrome :blabcat:

     @Polychrome @lanodan source?

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 23:04:20 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Polychrome :blabcat:
     @drewdevault @Polychrome Was pretty public on their forum, maybe still is.
     
     See https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psdqurvye
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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 23:14:00 JST Drew DeVault

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     • Scott Bronson

     @sb bots? sea lioning? or are you just annoyed with human beings being dicks

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     Scott Bronson (sb@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 23:14:01 JST Scott Bronson

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     @drewdevault In the past few months the amount of sea lioning on Mastodon seems to have gone way up. At least, the comment sections I read often get infested with aggressive and needlessly contrarian bots. Some pretty obvious brigading too.

     Hardly saw it at all 6 months ago, now I see it regularly.