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Ongoing bot attack (lemmy.today)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by mrmanager@lemmy.today to c/announcements@lemmy.today

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Update 2: Another one at the moment, so site is slow. :)

Update: Another 30000 bots joined the party, so cpu usage is high at the moment. Site is slower than normal.

Appearently about 17500 bots are attempting to slow down our instance and eating bandwidth by grabbing the same files over and over.

They are banned for now but its an ongoing battle against these guys. Just wanted to let you know in case you notice worse performance. :)

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

Foreign intelligence operations, just messing with our society.

I just read that the entire Cracker Barrel debacle was started by a bot swarm, that then got picked up by gullible MAGAs. The result was a corporation wasting millions of dollars on a trashed branding/marketing effort, and an unknown amount in lost business.

The entire point of the Russian and Chinese attacks on our country isn't any specific outcome, they just want us to fuck up our own country in as many ways as possible, and it is working extremely well.