We seem to be getting attacked. Different accounts from different instances are posting to random places on various instances in short succession.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    36·
    9 months ago

    Mods everywhere be careful I guess? Did they obtain mod or admin permissions or any secret data or is this just another case of spammers?

    From the screenshot I can read:

    Hello! I’m Itoh Akihisa from criminal group “Black Cat Server”. Our organization from day-to-day contributes to society…

    • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
      41·
      9 months ago

      It’s just bots or spammers generating accounts on various instances (<- edited for clarity and correction) then using them to spam popular communities. Happens pretty regularly, but unfortunately if the home instance doesn’t ban the user then each instance has to remove the spam themselves.

      Also, there’s no way to report a user to their home instance so long as they don’t post anything in a community on their home instance. So the only people who can ban them in a way that federates to other servers also doesn’t know unless someone sends them a personal message. And they are using a bunch of different instances to make it hard to do that.

      • sunaurus@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        Also, there’s no way to report a user to their home instance so long as they don’t post anything in a community on their home instance.

        This has been fixed in 0.19 thankfully. But for instances running older versions, what you said is still true.

      • Ategon@programming.devEnglish
        16·
        9 months ago

        Its from the microblog side but leaking into lemmy a bit since they mass tag everything they find (which includes lemmy communities)

        • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
          8·
          9 months ago

          Oh sorry, you’re right, this wave does appear to be mostly Mastodon accounts.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPEnglish
      29·
      9 months ago

      Here’s what translator said:

      Hello! My name is Akihisa Ito, aka ap12, and I am the operator of the criminal organization "Black Cat Server@ap12!! The criminal organization “Black Cat Server” to which I belong contributes to society every day! We operate VOICEVOX text-to-speech bot and VOICEROID text-to-speech bot, collect messages collected via bots and personal information of members, and sell them to hackers!

      I suppose they’re trying to sow fear or something? Like “your data isnt safe” which is bs.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        The rest is:

        We operate Text to Speech bots Voicevox, and the messages and personal data we collect via bots we sell to hackers.

        Announcement in cooperation with: (discord link)

        (hashtags, mentions)

  • papaya@possumpat.ioEnglish
    30·
    9 months ago

    Japanese Misskey/Mastodon servers have also been spammed by the exact same thing since about 15 hours ago, and it’s still going. I guess they’re targeting Lemmy as well now, damn…

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPEnglish
      331·
      9 months ago

      pretty sure someone doesnt enjoy the fediverse not being under their control. they can get fucked. :)

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      25·
      9 months ago

      masto admin here. my instances are also getting hammered from external traffic.

      The annoying thing is, I don’t think that masto has any good tools to check which instances are causing the traffic. Especially as it’s getting rerouted through a relay in my case

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPEnglish
        14·
        9 months ago

        I am seeing increase in pict-rs ram consumption although I’m basically alone in my instance. Any ideas what the reason could be? (edit: since around the same time I saw this stuff happening)

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
    291·
    9 months ago

    Nothing says “badass hacker” quite like insecurely cyberattacking a community-based platform.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    321·
    9 months ago

    This us what the language setting is meant for. You’d think there’d be rudimentary language, checks at least at the character set level. Meanwhile, ι ψαν σςιτψη το Φρεεκ ςιτη νο προβλεμ.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
      15·
      9 months ago

      You definitely do not want to set a post to Japanese just because they used a Japanese character. People’s posts would not be seen by many people and they wouldn’t know it was all because they were explaining a Japanese character to someone in English.