▲ 1371 ▼ Tesseract dev injects malicious code into browser to illegally DDOS the dbzer0 instance (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 month ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 487 comments fedilink hide all child comments As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.
[–] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 child) Didn’t the call for violence happened to be just a mod from another instance that had “death to zionism” that stepped down after he was called out? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago That's roughly what I remember: the threats were against "zionists" or "genociders" or similar, not any particular user by name, but this guy basically told on himself by interpreting it personally anyway. (It's possible I'm unaware of other, more egregious, behavior as the situation escalated, but I think this was at least the thing that started the pearl-clutching initially.) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago That's roughly what I remember: the threats were against "zionists" or "genociders" or similar, not any particular user by name, but this guy basically told on himself by interpreting it personally anyway. (It's possible I'm unaware of other, more egregious, behavior as the situation escalated, but I think this was at least the thing that started the pearl-clutching initially.) permalink fedilink source parent
