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Kbin Pornbot alert - looks like a number of bot accounts have taken up residence on kbin and are spamming /m/random with porn (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looks like we've had a wave of porn bots hit recently. Screenshot is a sampling of what's popping up on my threads feed when sorted by new.

A heads up to @ernest and to folks with magazines that might get hit by these guys. Looks like they're submitting from a couple of different domains, so it's difficult to block them from the user side, and some admin action might be necessary.

EDIT: ernest has removed the accounts and content, looks like all is well.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DON'T CLICK ON THEM! They use multiple redirects which potentially leads them to load websites in the background that could infect your system.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

F for @DarkThoughts. We salute your sacrifice for the greater good. May your files be encrypted and your antivirus strong.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ublock already nuked the pop up, I had to use an online scanner to check what was even happening because it just closed the tab immediately. Also I'm on Linux, so I feel I am probably not the target audience.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're on linux, even the fake MILFs in your area aren't interested.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ublock also eats them before they can even feign interest.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hot MILFs in your area are now all dating Ublock.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I got cUckblocked. :(

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Arotrios The magazines have been cleaned up and I've deleted the associated accounts. If this happens again, I'll apply a temporary fix. And if the campaigns cease, I'll work on a more comprehensive solution. Thanks for reaching out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@ernest - thanks! Glad I could help - you've built a great space here, and I know what a pain it is to deal with spambots.

[–] Carnelian 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Absolutely trashing c/all on lemmy as well

[–] spacedancer 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, it’s all over All even when sorting by Top or Hot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You guys over at lemmy might be able to clear your feeds over there by unsubbing to or blocking kbin.social/m/random until the accounts get cleared out. It looks like that's the only community they're posting to here thus far.

[–] Carnelian 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve blocked it for the time being, will keep an ear out for when the issue is resolved.

I’m not quite sure what the purpose of m/random actually is under normal circumstances, though?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's mainly to facilitate the microblogging side of kbin. Microblog posts normally get sorted into magazines according to their hashtags. Any post that doesn't have at least one matching magazine ends up in /m/random.

[–] Carnelian 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oh interesting, is there somewhere I can read about how that works? I’m not sure how the hashtags would translate into getting sent to different magazines, but it sounds cool

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My post on Microblogs from three days ago touches on this:
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/275724/Browsing-the-wider-fediverse-from-kbin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can set the tags that correspond to a magazine from its settings panel if you are an owner or mod. So posts with those tag will start showing up in the microblog section of the magazine.

[–] Carnelian 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, word that makes sense, ty

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's basically kbin.social's /r/all

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It is more like r/EverythingElse
It 'only' catches posts which didn't go to a magazine, it doesn't aggregate the ones which did.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not even good porn. Booo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Update 3:39 PST - another wave of 10 or so just came in - reported and blocked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Click on the server name & block it for all time.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would, but it's not just one server they're submitting - they're pushing multiple domains.

That being said, I think I've reported and blocked all of them, and my feed is clear now - there were about 20 - 30 accounts in total. This indicates that someone manually set them up by going through Kbin's login process - if they had built a bot that could hack the login, we'd probably see numbers in the hundreds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Block the each user, there's about 6 or 7, all on kbin.social, job done..