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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.
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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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correct.
with this most recent tantrum, he's now using tesseract client browsers to DDOS attack the db0 instance.
he's basically created a botnet, which is actually a crime.