There’s currently an incident involving some kind of Japanese skids who call themselves the “Kuroneko” organization.

They seem to be attempting to commit DDoS attacks on Misskey servers, constantly creating new accounts on compromised instances and spamming advertisements for their hacking services.

Admins who are federating with these compromised servers, while they might not get compromised themselves, may be affected by the sheer amount of traffic volume from their spam.

Admins are advised to #fediblock or temporarily stop sending requests to affected servers for now, if they don’t want to get secondhand DoS’d

IMO I never expected them to be Japanese out of all things, kinda funny. They also host VOICEROID and VOICEVOX TTS bots on their Discord apparently. Kinda a weird flex I guess.

But yeah, probably just a bunch of skids.
#fediblock #fediadmin #fedadmins #mastodadmin #misskeyadmin

it is really fucking dumb to rely on cloud hosting providers with billing based on usage, especially egress traffic. don’t do that. i’ve seen several people get hit by hosting bills in the thousands of dollars.

psychiatrists don’t want you to know this but the most effective treatment for social anxiety, autism, chronic depression and bpd is cuddling

Lizard milk.

@georgia

Phinda button spider, Latrodectus umbukwane, Theridiidae

This widow spider was confirmed as a new species in 2019 and so far is found only in South Africa’s Phinda reserve. It is believed to be the largest member of the widow genus.