Kann es sein das Spam im Fediverse vor allen von Diaspora her kommt? Klar ich hatte das auch schon auf Basis von Mastodon, aber eben nur sehr sehr wenig. Das was Diapora kommt ist wesentlich mehr. Neuestes Beispiel ist der Account globalfinancellz@diaspora.psyco.fr (Link) der mir folgenden schönen Kommentar schickte, den ich natürlich gelöscht habe:
#Frage #Friendica #Diaspora #Spam #2025-08-01 !Friendica Support
⚠️ SCAM WARNING ⚠️
We’re getting blasted by a bot-driven barrage of accounts requesting Palestine aid.
These are the avatars being used, and account names look like this:
Mahmoud│⟪Hear Our Cries⟫
Mahmoud│⟪Feed Our Hunger⟫
Mahmoud│⟪Dry Our Tears⟫
The person in the photo may be real, but the accounts are not. They use signature spam methods.
Report, block, and DO NOT give money. Many already have. This is theft from real Palestinians.
#Scam #Spam #Alert #Mastodon #Palestine #Gaza
Question #spam #telephonique
Hier soir un +33800112112 a tenté de me joindre. Vérification faite à l'instant, ça ressemble au numéro qui s'affiche lorsque les services d'urgence vous rappelle après que vous ayez composé le 15 ou le 17, 18, 112, 197
interieur.gouv.fr/actualites/a…
Bien sûr, je n'ai composé aucun de ces numéros donc je m'interroge : existe-t-il une possibilité que le +33 permette de "détourner" le numéro initial ?
J'invoque @dada parce que c'est notre "urgentiste" masto favori 🙂
Spam sucks.
That's why we're building FediThreat, a new service that is being integrated into Pixelfed, so you can prevent spammers from joining instead of dealing with them after.
We're testing this on pixelfed.social, and will be launching this publicly in early July ✨
Es scheint #SPAM im Namen von @Tutanota im Umlauf zu sein. Die Mail mit einer vermeindlich gesperrten Email im Anhang Man solle doch bitte den Anhang in einem Emailprogramm wie #Thunderbird oder #Outlook öffnen.
Die Mail landet im SPAM Ordner un behauptet, dass das genau so gewollt sei.
Zitat:
This notification email was delivered to your spam folder intentionally because emails that do not respect internet standards are most often spam.
Best,
Your Tuta team.
Am besten gleich löschen.
I am here to announce that I have decreased #spam on my web contact form from 1 message every 15 minutes (for months straight) to 0 messages in the last week by adding a "I am a spam bot" radio button.
I am not joking.
No I am not using something like ReCaptcha, I literally just added a radio button to the list.
#Slop is low-quality media - including writing and images - made using generative artificial intelligence technology.
Quelle: Wikipedia.
Open source projects have to deal with a growing number of low-quality vulnerability reports based on AI. See for example this comment from Daniel Stenberg, maintainer of #Curl:
I'm sorry you feel that way, but you need to realize your own role here. We receive AI slop like this regularly and at volume. You contribute to unnecessary load of curl maintainers and I refuse to take that lightly and I am determined to act swiftly against it. Now and going forward.You submitted what seems to be an obvious AI slop "report" where you say there is a security problem, probably because an AI tricked you into believing this. You then waste our time by not telling us that an AI did this for you and you then continue the discussion with even more crap responses - seemingly also generated by AI.
Weiterlesen bei HackerOne: Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and inet_ntop4.
#opensource #AI #LLM #Spam
*Curl is a software that I love and is an important tool for the world. * *If my report doesn't align, I apologize for that.* The `Curl_inet_ntop` function is designed to convert IP addresses from...HackerOne
If you're new to Thunderbird, helping someone get started, or were just curious, we explain not only how Thunderbird's spam filters work, but our tips and tricks for putting them to work to keep your inbox spam and junk free. 📧
Do #Duolingo’s or #LinkedIn’s endless marketing emails get on your nerves? 🤔 🤔
We have collected tips to stop companies’ marketing and #spam emails.
Enjoy a clutter-free mailbox today! 🔒 ❤️
👇 👇 👇
tuta.com/blog/stop-email-spam-…
Using your email address for sign ups can quickly clutter your inbox with unwanted marketing emails. Luckily you can stop this wave of spam by changing the default settings.Tutanota
It's 2024 and #Google is now requiring bulk #email senders to use DMARC, SPF, & DKIM when emailing #Gmail users. 👍
👉 tuta.com/blog/google-introduci…
This is a great step, BUT why did they allow bulk senders to send #spam emails without proper #security standards until now? 🤔
Google and Yahoo! will require the use of DMARC, SPF, and DKIM in an attempt to crackdown on spam and phishing. It is surprising that these features were not already a requirement.Tutanota
Hello all Fedi Admins who have problems with spam!
I have been updating the spam list and found ~104 additional instances that continued spamming! I, with lots of help of other Fedi Admins, have compiled the instances into a list which mutes them, and does not defederate from them!
I'd highly appreciate a small donation here as I've worked really hard and long on creating this, which given my current schedule I can hardly justify! Thanks!
There is a new type of spam, the same instances are affected as before. Those responsible in Japan are said to have been arrested.
Instructions and Explanation of the List.
Once this list is imported, most of the spam is gone. The whole thing is easy for you, with just one click! In addition, no instance is blocked forever, no followers etc. are destroyed or unfollowed, only muted.
You can simply import this list by going to https://yourinstance.tld/admin/export_domain_blocks/new and replacing yourinstance.tld with the domain of the instance you are the administrator of!
Alternatively, you can also click on Settings => Moderation => Federation => Import to import this list.
Note that although all instances can be imported with one click, these instances must be removed individually when the spam is over.
Also note that it only makes sense to import this list and mute the spam instances if you have blocked your spam locally and permanently, as described here.
Here's to a spam-free Fediverse :apartyblobcat: !
#MastoAdmins #FediBlock #Spam #Spamwave #Fedimins #FediAdmin #FediAdmins FediAdminEN
Hallo alle Fedi-Admins die Probleme mit Spam haben!
Ich habe die Spam-Liste aktualisiert und ~104 zusätzliche Instanzen gefunden, die weiterhin spammen! Ich habe, mit viel Hilfe von anderen Fedi Admins, die Instanzen in einer Liste zusammengestellt, die sie stumm schaltet und nicht von ihnen deföderiert!
Ich würde mich sehr über eine kleine Spende hier freuen, da Ich wirklich hart und lange an der Erstellung dieser Liste gearbeitet habe, was Ich angesichts meines aktuellen Zeitplans kaum rechtfertigen kann! Dankeschön!
Es gibt eine neue Art von Spam, die gleichen Instanzen sind betroffen wie vorher. Die Verantwortlichen in Japan sollen verhaftet worden sein.
Anleitung und Erklärung zur Liste.
Ist diese Liste importiert ist ein Großteil des Spams vorbei. Das ganze ist für euch leicht, geht mit einem klick! Zudem wird keinerlei Instanz für immer geblockt, keinerlei Follower etc. zerstört oder deföderiert, sondern nur stummgeschaltet. Das ist sehr leicht umkehrbar.
Ihr könnet diese Liste einfach importieren, indem ihr auf https://yourinstance.tld/admin/export_domain_blocks/new geht und yourinstance.tld durch die Domain derer Instanz ersetzt, von der ihr der Administrator seid!
Alternativ könnt ihr auch auf Einstellungen => Moderation => Föderation => Importieren drücken, um diese Liste zu importieren.
Beachtet, dass zwar alle Instanzen mit einem Klick importiert werden können, dass aber diese Instanzen einzeln entfernt werden müssen, wenn der Spam vorbei ist.
Beachtet auch, dass es nur Sinn ergibt, diese Liste zu importieren und die Spam-Instanzen stumm zu schalten, wenn ihr euren Spam lokal und nachhaltig blockiert habt, wie hier beschrieben.
Auf ein Spam-Freies Fediverse 
!
#MastoAdmins #FediBlock #Spam #Spamwelle #Fedimins #FediAdmin #FediAdmins FediAdminDE
Woha, this is unexpected: in a future update mastodon will automatically turn off open registration if no mod has logged in for a week or longer:
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…
This is great news, and should hopefully significantly cut down on abandoned servers being used to send spam!
(And this is in addition to also having open registrations off by default on new servers.)
Great news!
This is not meant to replace #29280, but supplement it to avoid unmonitored servers keeping open registrations indefinitely. Automatically switch away from open registrations if no user with the pe...GitHub
This makes me furious. Please, stop using Discord. They are complicit if they keep the discord server responsible for keeping the spam attacks alive.
The big wave of spams is over? Thank you FediAdmins for doing what you do!
#krita #ArtWithOpenSource #FediArt #MastoArt #spam
Are you seeing spam? A poll
The fediverse is dealing with a major spam attack -- Heise has some coverage (in German).
But not everybody is seeing spam. Are you? If so how much?
@fediversenews #fediverse #spam
PS: if you are seeing spam, there's also afollowon poll asking where
Seit Tagen klagen einige User auf Mastodon über eine Spamwelle. Der liegen automatisierte Angriffe auf unzureichend geschützte Teile des Fediverse zugrunde.Martin Holland (heise online)
im getting really tired... -w-
summary of today:
someone on a Japanese hacker forum decided it was a good idea to spam the entire Fediverse because they wanted to cancel a minor that DDoSed a Discord bot which apparently made them lost millions (what?)
A Discord bot. I can't make this shit up man.
The real culprit seems to be someone who goes by mumei in the ctkpaarr.org forums, whose first post was literally a threat to ap12, that if they don't delete their "Kuroneko Server" Discord bot, they will spam every blog, forum and SNS and cancel him.
This shit is ridiculous.
The ap12 account from mastodon-japan was actually fake, and this dude impersonated a minor to get all of the Fediverse (us) to bully him.
The forum admins didn't even stop this. Why? lulz apparently. #fediblockmeta#fediadmins#fediadmin#mastoadmin#mastoadmins#spam#cybercrime#cybersec#infosec#drama#discord
Resolved: Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from @tutanota.com Domain as Spam.
tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-…
This is just another example of how much power Microsoft has. But sometimes I'm not sure they really know what they're doing.
Anyway, dealing with Windows email users (businesses and individuals) can be a nightmare.
If you plan on using your own email server, sooner or later you'll be playing this game too.
#microsoft #outlook #hotmail #email #spam @Tutanota
Update: Emails from Tutanota.com no longer go to Spam in Outlook.Tutanota
#XMPP Events
XMPP Meet-up Berlin
@mattj talks about "Spam, Abuse and Moderation"
Wed, 2023-11-08 18:00 CET
#xHain hack+makespace
Grünberger Str. 16, 10243 #Berlin
mov.im/node/pubsub.movim.eu/be…
#Jabber #chat #community #meetup #community #spam #abuse #moderation #interoperability #standards #federation
#decentralization
MattJ talks about "Spam, Abuse and Moderation" When? Wednesday, 2023-11-08 18:00 CET (always…mov.im
I have banned and purged sbcloud.cc from everywhere, based on this
2023-01-29T10:27:59Z worker [INFO]: Server peer update start {"url":"https://fed.sbcloud.cc","worker_id":"85e31dd","worker_cmd":"UpdateServerPeers"} - {"file":"UpdateServerPeers.php","line":54,"function":"execute","uid":"a33038","process_id":295381}
2023-01-29T10:27:59Z worker [INFO]: Server is unknown. Start discovery. {"Server":"https://1chs090ty.activitypub-troll.cf","worker_id":"85e31dd","worker_cmd":"UpdateServerPeers"} - {"file":"GServer.php","line":358,"function":"check","uid":"a33038","process_id":295381}Since then worker doesn't pull in spambots again.
Now, it would be neat to know:
1. What exatly happened (I don't know the protocol that deeply)
2. Who did what
3. How to prevent that from happening in the future (both network-wise and locally)
Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots
techdirt.com/2022/12/02/multip…
#elonmusk #twitter #polls #bots #spam #1
Rolling Stone has a fun article quoting multiple former Twitter employees highlighting that polls are the least secure tool on the platform, and are regularly open to manipulation by bots: “Polls a…Techdirt