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Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks

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Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks

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Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks | TechCrunch

Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted

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Doesn’t do anything to accounts that raided a server, sending members gore and worse videos.

(Lost a good community in the aftermath, and at least one of the offensive accounts is still active!)

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