#InstanceAnnouncement Coordinated Potential Bot Network Suspended

We have detected and suspended 5 coordinated bot accounts today.

Indicators of Compromise:

• Content consists of semantically incoherent English text generated by LLM — no direct harm observed, but likely used for account seasoning and filter evasion
• All 5 accounts registered between 2026-03-18 17:52 and 2026-03-19 23:50
• Profiles contain a single English sentence + emoji, or several meaningless English phrases
• All connection IPs belong to Cloudflare proxy ranges
• Registrant domains include disposable email services and high-risk domains

Actions Taken:
Accounts suspended (all IPs verified as Cloudflare IPs — no user privacy has been compromised):
@iwutyp 162.159.XXX.XX
@PhyllisReynolds 172.70.XXX.XXX
@ezob 104.23.XXX.XX
@uhux_xudym 104.23.XXX.XX
@Ethel_Robinson 172.68.XXX.XXX

Email domains blocked:
tmail.lt, maxseeding.vn, dqsbf.blema.io.vn, sphinx.launders.money, kimora.space

Notes:
Registration had previously been set to open in order to simplify the sign-up process. We are now enabling "Require approval" + "Require a reason to join".
If you spot accounts with similar characteristics, or matching email domains/IPs, please report them.
This instance does not welcome malicious or unmoderated bots.

#mastodon #fediverse #antispam #spam #instanceadmin #moderation

#实例公告 封禁协同潜在的僵尸账户网络

今日检测并封禁了 5 个协同运作的僵尸账户

行为特征：

已采取的措施：
封禁账户（经核查IP均为Cloudflare IP，未泄露任何用户隐私）：
@iwutyp 162.159.XXX.XX
@PhyllisReynolds 172.70.XXX.XXX
@ezob 104.23.XXX.XX
@uhux_xudym 104.23.XXX.XX
@Ethel_Robinson 172.68.XXX.XXX
封禁邮箱：
tmail.lt、maxseeding.vn、dqsbf.blema.io.vn、sphinx.launders.money、kimora.space

总结：
由于前段时间为了简化注册流程，关闭了人工审核
将开启“注册时需要批准”+“注册时需要提供理由”
如果大家有发现类似行为特征的新账户，相同邮箱域名/IP请谨慎辨别
本实例不欢迎任何恶意/不受管制的机器人注册

#mastodon #fediverse #antispam #spam #实例管理 #moderation

You're welcome. 😁

https://codeberg.org/qwebltd/QFlex-Invisible-Landing-Captcha

This is already in place on https://www.qweb.co.uk for testing, and will be rolled out to at least the bigger sites we host imminently.

You can't even tell it's in there, can you? 😏

This was the final jigsaw piece in a whole suite of mechanics I've built to secure our servers from aggressive scrapers. Enormous blog post on it all is incoming. 👍

#PHP #WebDev #SelfHost #Captcha #SecOps #AntiSpam #AntiBot

Frank geht ran

"Diese Nummer ist alles, was Sie brauchen: 0163 1737743 (Festnetz: 0521 16391643). Franks Nummer können Sie an alle Menschen weitergeben, die nach Ihrer Telefonnummer verlangen, aber mit denen Sie nichts zu tun haben wollen."

Link: https://digitalcourage.de/frank-geht-ran

#linkdump #antispam

I added a few more translations of the phrase "The rest is trash" to the spamtraps at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html).

If you want further translations added, please let me know (with translation in your message).

#spamtraps #greytrapping #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #antispam #imaginaryfriends #localization #cybercrime

The list without wrapper text is available as https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/sortlist.txt (BIG! -- 22975800 entries as of right now, will increase)

"The Rest Is Trash"

We are now halfway through the nineteenth year of greytrapping, still tracking and collecting from the wealth of imbecility out there

https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html) #spamd #greytrapping #greylisting #openbsd #freebsd #spam #antispam #cybercrime

Ha sido mencionar Durov lo de Sánchez y ya me ha salido el primer mensaje de Spam en la app en mucho tiempo.
Que se cuide de que empiecen a spamear a los usuarios españoles que le puede salir el tiro por la culata, ya que puedo estar de acuerdo con cosas dichas en su mensaje, pero si empieza a haber Spam la gente puede huir en masa, aunque sea de vuelta a Whatsapp.

Me repito, echadle un vistazo a las distintas apps que hay para XMPP y Chatmail

#Telegram #whatsapp #RedesSocialesLibres #privacidad #antispam #xmpp #chatmail

Reprising my Sunday, Feb 1st post for the midweek crowd:

The Rest Is Trash https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html) following up on #greytrapping, updating the 18 years piece https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html #openbsd #spamd #greytrappng #greylisting #antispam #cybercrime #networking #spam