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Erik Uden 🍑

It's silent... too silent.

On February 17th 2024 at 09:23 GMT+1. That is when it all stopped.

Most spam affected instances have not fixed the spam or banned the spammer's accounts. We were completely at the mercy of 'em. They just decided to stop...

The spammers are up to something.

17 February at 11:09 | Open on mastodon.de
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Davida Taylor

@ErikUden
ssssshh...
They're breeding.

17 February at 11:11 | Open on lsbt.me
Shabbir Ahmmed

@ErikUden
It felt like I was reading a thriller novel!

17 February at 11:14 | Open on infosec.town
Erik Uden 🍑

...aaand the spam is back. New images, new text, new ways to circumvent the filter! Don't celebrate too early, folx. It was just the silence before the storm. The botnet shutting down in order to reboot with the newest update!

This spam war will be won in one way and one way only: the collaborative effort of blocking spam altogether from the Fediverse. The spammers themselves won't gracefully shut down and give up.

But while they developed better spam, we developed better weapons against it, stay tuned.

...aaand the spam is back. New images, new text, new ways to circumvent the filter! Don't celebrate too early, folx. It was just the silence before the storm. The botnet shutting down in order to reboot with the newest update!

This spam war will be won in one way and one way only: the collaborative effort of blocking spam altogether from the Fediverse. The spammers themselves won't gracefully shut down and give up.

21 February at 10:00 | Open on mastodon.de
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