NodeBB
@nodebb@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

It seems that community.nodebb.org is under a DDoS attack at the moment. We have enabled CloudFlare's "under attack" mode which has stopped the attack but it also has the unfortunate side effect of blocking all incoming ActivityPub traffic as well.

Interesting side effect. Will continue to monitor.

#fediadmin #cloudflare #ddos #nodebb
keef
@keefmarshall@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp last month

So my first evil genius robot honeypot, the word frequency one, seems to be getting hit by a distributed botnet.

It started around 2-3 requests per second but seems to be ramping up.

It's using IP addresses from all over the world - could be hacked personal devices? - and a wide range of plausible-looking User Agent strings.

My server is fine for now - 95% idle CPU.

Are there people for whom any of the IP or agent data might be useful? Botnet detectorists?

#botnet #ddos

Poliverso & Poliversity
macfranc
Poliverso & Poliversity and 1 other boosted
N_{Dario Fadda}
@nuke@poliversity.it  ·  activity timestamp last month

Importante operazione internazionale coordinata da @Europol espone infrastruttura e avvia arresti, denunce e mandati di sequestro ai danni del gruppo criminale #NoName05716 .

https://www.cybersecurity360.it/news/operazione-eastwood-neutralizzata-noname05716-cosi-leuropa-ha-fermato-gli-attacchi-ddos-pro-russi/

#DDoS#DDoSia

Fireside Fedi
ozoned
Fireside Fedi and 1 other boosted
BT Free
@btfree@social.btfree.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Yay! Just #DDOS myself through #fedi ! I feel it's a rite of passage. For those that don't know, when you have a bunch of followers and you link to a website, mastodon, and I'm assuming others, immediately attempts to resolve that. So every hosts checks I. To your server all at once and crushes it. 😄 lol but we live and learn. And we're making plans to prevent that in the future.
BT Free
@btfree@social.btfree.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Yay! Just #DDOS myself through #fedi ! I feel it's a rite of passage. For those that don't know, when you have a bunch of followers and you link to a website, mastodon, and I'm assuming others, immediately attempts to resolve that. So every hosts checks I. To your server all at once and crushes it. 😄 lol but we live and learn. And we're making plans to prevent that in the future.
Gytis Repečka
@gytisrepecka@social.gyt.is  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Attention server admins! Yesterday I've read a post by @simon_brooke how nasty AI scraper bots are attacking his self-hosted @forgejo instance. Soon after I'm seeing unusual, periodic traffic spikes on mine and again - dominated by OpenAI, but some other freeloaders too:

20.171.207.41 GPTBot/1.2

85.208.96.211 SemrushBot/7~bl

54.36.148.64 AhrefsBot/7.0

114.119.139.53 PetalBot

With GPTBot and SemrushBot attacking hardest blobcatscared

They've been hammering my little server periodically today as well, slowing down my instance dramatically as if I was experiencing malicious DDoS attack blobcatfearful Well, in a sense it is one blobcatnotlikethis

Watch out - it seems corporate AI techbros learned to scrape forgejo content and starts doing it on a massive scale blobcatoutage Remember when @Codeberg was (and repeatedly is) hit?

For now blocked IP ranges and User-Agent combinations, not sure for how long that will be enough blobcatumm

Please boost for visibility and be prepared!

#forgejo #developerlife #coding #attack #techbros #aislop #openai #bots #ddos
Gytis Repečka
@gytisrepecka@social.gyt.is  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Attention server admins! Yesterday I've read a post by @simon_brooke how nasty AI scraper bots are attacking his self-hosted @forgejo instance. Soon after I'm seeing unusual, periodic traffic spikes on mine and again - dominated by OpenAI, but some other freeloaders too:

20.171.207.41 GPTBot/1.2

85.208.96.211 SemrushBot/7~bl

54.36.148.64 AhrefsBot/7.0

114.119.139.53 PetalBot

With GPTBot and SemrushBot attacking hardest blobcatscared

They've been hammering my little server periodically today as well, slowing down my instance dramatically as if I was experiencing malicious DDoS attack blobcatfearful Well, in a sense it is one blobcatnotlikethis

Watch out - it seems corporate AI techbros learned to scrape forgejo content and starts doing it on a massive scale blobcatoutage Remember when @Codeberg was (and repeatedly is) hit?

For now blocked IP ranges and User-Agent combinations, not sure for how long that will be enough blobcatumm

Please boost for visibility and be prepared!

#forgejo #developerlife #coding #attack #techbros #aislop #openai #bots #ddos
Dendrobatus Azureus
@Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

I want you to meet Anubis
This is a wonderful tool, a powerful program designed against artificial intelligence large language models theft of resources.

It's not perfect, it's not finished this is an ongoing onslaught by the LLM Bots

https://anubis.techaro.lol/

#DDoS#LLM #bots #infosec#OpenAI#Linux#KDE#GitHub#GitLab #sh#AI
🖋️ #bash#MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish   #distro#Linux#POSIX   #fresh #programming

The screencap shows a CAPTCHA screen with a black background. At the top, there is a message in yellow text that reads "Making sure you're not a bot!" Below this, there is an illustration of a cartoon character with brown hair, cat-like ears, and a white nurse's hat with a red cross (Anime). The character is holding a magnifying glass and making a thumbs-up gesture. The text below the illustration states "Calculating... Difficulty: 4, Speed: 8.829kH/s." A progress bar is shown, indicating the CAPTCHA is being processed. At the bottom, there is a link to the website "anubis.techaro.lol" with a note that the site is protected by Anubis from Techaro, made with love in Canada. The time on the device is 00:40, and the battery is at 84%. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.221 Wh
The screencap shows a CAPTCHA screen with a black background. At the top, there is a message in yellow text that reads "Making sure you're not a bot!" Below this, there is an illustration of a cartoon character with brown hair, cat-like ears, and a white nurse's hat with a red cross (Anime). The character is holding a magnifying glass and making a thumbs-up gesture. The text below the illustration states "Calculating... Difficulty: 4, Speed: 8.829kH/s." A progress bar is shown, indicating the CAPTCHA is being processed. At the bottom, there is a link to the website "anubis.techaro.lol" with a note that the site is protected by Anubis from Techaro, made with love in Canada. The time on the device is 00:40, and the battery is at 84%. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.221 Wh
The screencap shows a CAPTCHA screen with a black background. At the top, there is a message in yellow text that reads "Making sure you're not a bot!" Below this, there is an illustration of a cartoon character with brown hair, cat-like ears, and a white nurse's hat with a red cross (Anime). The character is holding a magnifying glass and making a thumbs-up gesture. The text below the illustration states "Calculating... Difficulty: 4, Speed: 8.829kH/s." A progress bar is shown, indicating the CAPTCHA is being processed. At the bottom, there is a link to the website "anubis.techaro.lol" with a note that the site is protected by Anubis from Techaro, made with love in Canada. The time on the device is 00:40, and the battery is at 84%. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.221 Wh
Dendrobatus Azureus
@Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

Anubis was programmed by this great coder

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/amazon-crawler/

#DDoS#LLM #bots #infosec#OpenAI#Linux#KDE#GitHub#GitLab   #sh#AI
🖋️ #bash#MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish   #distro#Linux#POSIX   #fresh #programming

The screencap shows a a blog post on an Android The post is titled "Amazon's AI crawler is making my git server unstable" and is published on January 17, 2025, with 361 words and an estimated reading time of 2 minutes. The author requests that the crawler stops. Below the title, there is an edit note dated March 26, 2025, at 14:27 UTC, stating that Anubis has become a full-fledged project with a documentation site. The author asks for donations to their Patreon account to support their work, specifically for "not having to do my dayjob fund." The blog post is displayed on a dark background with white text, and the navigation bar at the top includes options such as "Blog," "Contact," "Resume," "Talks," "Xecast," and "Signalboost." The author's name, "Xe," is highlighted in pink. The status bar at the top of the screen shows the time as 00:53, the battery level at 83%, and the network signal strength. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.272 Wh
The screencap shows a a blog post on an Android The post is titled "Amazon's AI crawler is making my git server unstable" and is published on January 17, 2025, with 361 words and an estimated reading time of 2 minutes. The author requests that the crawler stops. Below the title, there is an edit note dated March 26, 2025, at 14:27 UTC, stating that Anubis has become a full-fledged project with a documentation site. The author asks for donations to their Patreon account to support their work, specifically for "not having to do my dayjob fund." The blog post is displayed on a dark background with white text, and the navigation bar at the top includes options such as "Blog," "Contact," "Resume," "Talks," "Xecast," and "Signalboost." The author's name, "Xe," is highlighted in pink. The status bar at the top of the screen shows the time as 00:53, the battery level at 83%, and the network signal strength. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.272 Wh
The screencap shows a a blog post on an Android The post is titled "Amazon's AI crawler is making my git server unstable" and is published on January 17, 2025, with 361 words and an estimated reading time of 2 minutes. The author requests that the crawler stops. Below the title, there is an edit note dated March 26, 2025, at 14:27 UTC, stating that Anubis has become a full-fledged project with a documentation site. The author asks for donations to their Patreon account to support their work, specifically for "not having to do my dayjob fund." The blog post is displayed on a dark background with white text, and the navigation bar at the top includes options such as "Blog," "Contact," "Resume," "Talks," "Xecast," and "Signalboost." The author's name, "Xe," is highlighted in pink. The status bar at the top of the screen shows the time as 00:53, the battery level at 83%, and the network signal strength. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.272 Wh
Dendrobatus Azureus
@Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

I want you to meet Anubis
This is a wonderful tool, a powerful program designed against artificial intelligence large language models theft of resources.

It's not perfect, it's not finished this is an ongoing onslaught by the LLM Bots

https://anubis.techaro.lol/

#DDoS#LLM #bots #infosec#OpenAI#Linux#KDE#GitHub#GitLab #sh#AI
🖋️ #bash#MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish   #distro#Linux#POSIX   #fresh #programming

The screencap shows a CAPTCHA screen with a black background. At the top, there is a message in yellow text that reads "Making sure you're not a bot!" Below this, there is an illustration of a cartoon character with brown hair, cat-like ears, and a white nurse's hat with a red cross (Anime). The character is holding a magnifying glass and making a thumbs-up gesture. The text below the illustration states "Calculating... Difficulty: 4, Speed: 8.829kH/s." A progress bar is shown, indicating the CAPTCHA is being processed. At the bottom, there is a link to the website "anubis.techaro.lol" with a note that the site is protected by Anubis from Techaro, made with love in Canada. The time on the device is 00:40, and the battery is at 84%. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.221 Wh
The screencap shows a CAPTCHA screen with a black background. At the top, there is a message in yellow text that reads "Making sure you're not a bot!" Below this, there is an illustration of a cartoon character with brown hair, cat-like ears, and a white nurse's hat with a red cross (Anime). The character is holding a magnifying glass and making a thumbs-up gesture. The text below the illustration states "Calculating... Difficulty: 4, Speed: 8.829kH/s." A progress bar is shown, indicating the CAPTCHA is being processed. At the bottom, there is a link to the website "anubis.techaro.lol" with a note that the site is protected by Anubis from Techaro, made with love in Canada. The time on the device is 00:40, and the battery is at 84%. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.221 Wh
The screencap shows a CAPTCHA screen with a black background. At the top, there is a message in yellow text that reads "Making sure you're not a bot!" Below this, there is an illustration of a cartoon character with brown hair, cat-like ears, and a white nurse's hat with a red cross (Anime). The character is holding a magnifying glass and making a thumbs-up gesture. The text below the illustration states "Calculating... Difficulty: 4, Speed: 8.829kH/s." A progress bar is shown, indicating the CAPTCHA is being processed. At the bottom, there is a link to the website "anubis.techaro.lol" with a note that the site is protected by Anubis from Techaro, made with love in Canada. The time on the device is 00:40, and the battery is at 84%. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.221 Wh