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)