Notices by Cappy Ishihara (cappy@fedi.fyralabs.com)

@mima@makai.chaotic.ninja I feel like everyone's just handling this really badly.

- Developers just can't be bothered to be GDPR/PDPA compliant because it takes effort
- Users (like OP) being in bad faith against the developers and thinking they don't care about privacy (they do but don't have time)
- Fediverse's strongest point, decentralization, is a weakness. Once you post something, someone somewhere will be hoarding data for future reference or out of neglect. General rule of the internet: Once something's on the internet, it stays on the internet.

@MichaelAltfield@mastodon.social this is literally how all of fediverse works, everyone caches their own images for speed

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Regarding the current Fediverse spam:

Cyberbullying Gone Global: Fediverse Spam and Operation Beleaguer

https://blog.fyralabs.com/cyberbullying-gone-global-regarding-the-fediverse-spam-and-operation-beleaguer/ #fediblock #spam #infrastructure #fediblockmeta #cybersec #cybersecurity #infosec #osint #osint4good

I'm deleting the OSINT post, it's misinformation.

Please don't share it anymore.

Also, shoutouts to https://kuroneko6423.com/, they're the real victims in this situation (and fedi raid).

Their discord bots, while Japanese-only (for now) are really cool! They have translation, TTS and even Genshin Impact artifact dashboards! https://artifacter.kuroneko6423.com/

Keeping it on will hurt KuronekoServer more, and they're the real victims here.

Working on a full exposé, should be done by tomorrow, or Monday.

Anyway, these guys are going to get expelled from their schools regardless (they're minors). I just want to set the record straight from all these live investigation posts. So we can finally know what really happened, and what's going on.

I apologize for all the misinformation I have posted earlier, KuronekoServer's devs and ap12 are not the culprit in this raid.

Do not listen to their lies.

RE: https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psnooe6p1

@lina@eientei.org @meso@the.asbestos.cafe it's okay, I'll 💢💢correct💢💢 these children for the better

im getting really tired... -w-

summary of today:

someone on a Japanese hacker forum decided it was a good idea to spam the entire Fediverse because they wanted to cancel a minor that DDoSed a Discord bot which apparently made them lost millions (what?)

A Discord bot. I can't make this shit up man.

The real culprit seems to be someone who goes by mumei in the ctkpaarr.org forums, whose first post was literally a threat to ap12, that if they don't delete their "Kuroneko Server" Discord bot, they will spam every blog, forum and SNS and cancel him.

This shit is ridiculous.

The ap12 account from mastodon-japan was actually fake, and this dude impersonated a minor to get all of the Fediverse (us) to bully him.

The forum admins didn't even stop this. Why? lulz apparently. #fediblockmeta #fediadmins #fediadmin #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #spam #cybercrime #cybersec #infosec #drama #discord

misskey.io has now taken legal action against the spammers. #fediblockmeta #fediadmins #fediadmin #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #spam #cybercrime #cybersec #infosec

RE: https://pastwind.top/notes/9ps9moq16f

@puniko@mk.absturztau.be RaidForums used to be a hacking forum where people would sell scripts and malware and stuff. And also stolen user data.

This specific forum is basically the Japanese equivalent of that.

@puniko@mk.absturztau.be i mean, it's Japanese RaidForums.

@puniko@mk.absturztau.be Yup.

Unbelievable.

Anyway here's a translation from a new forum post on why the forum is spamming fedi rn:

@mint@ryona.agency @grips@cawfee.club I totally forgot that was a thing. I joined the GitHub protest too lmfao #fediblock #fediblockmeta #fediadmins #fediadmin #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #spam #cybercrime #cybersec #infosec

@Jain@blob.cat @puniko@mk.absturztau.be that's cool. just make sure to clear your cache occasionally so it won't fill up and kill the server

#fediblock #fediblockmeta #fediadmins #fediadmin #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #spam

RE: https://tuusin.misono-ya.info/objects/3c7fa9bb-678c-4cbe-9b55-4670bf9d30d9

#fediadmins,
TURN OFF IMAGE CACHING in your instance for now!

They won't send you viruses, but they will DoS you with the sheer amount of bandwidth and storage from the image spam! #fediblock #fediblockmeta #fediadmins #fediadmin #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #spam

Get ready fellas. #fediblock #fediblockmeta #fediadmins #fediadmin #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #spam

There's currently an incident involving some kind of Japanese skids who call themselves the "Kuroneko" organization.

They seem to be attempting to commit DDoS attacks on Misskey servers, constantly creating new accounts on compromised instances and spamming advertisements for their hacking services.

Admins who are federating with these compromised servers, while they might not get compromised themselves, may be affected by the sheer amount of traffic volume from their spam.

Admins are advised to #fediblock or temporarily stop sending requests to affected servers for now, if they don't want to get secondhand DoS'd

IMO I never expected them to be Japanese out of all things, kinda funny. They also host VOICEROID and VOICEVOX TTS bots on their Discord apparently. Kinda a weird flex I guess.

But yeah, probably just a bunch of skids.
#fediblock #fediadmin #fedadmins #mastodadmin #misskeyadmin