▲ 1372 ▼ 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.
[–] foggy@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (1 child) And that's how you go from loser troll to criminal. 👋 permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago Unfortunately he may not be prosecuted. Many protestware developers aren't. The developer of Node-IPC intentionally destroyed data on many computers with Russian and Belarus location data, including supposedly a few military computers, and he's unfortunately a free man. Didn't even get banned on Github. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago Unfortunately he may not be prosecuted. Many protestware developers aren't. The developer of Node-IPC intentionally destroyed data on many computers with Russian and Belarus location data, including supposedly a few military computers, and he's unfortunately a free man. Didn't even get banned on Github. permalink fedilink source parent
