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Cyberbullying Gone Global: Fediverse Spam and Operation Beleaguer (blog.fyralabs.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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A really interesting look at the recent spam wave.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

There have been other waves, it's just that once they get shut down everybody loses interest and moves on. The PR for the one of the changes Mastodon just made was implemented in May 2023 after the Doge spam wave. And here's a June 2019 post talking about exactly the same kind of attack: "The problem we are experiencing is the spammer signing up on random open instances and sending spam remotely."