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Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks

ID: e62da96b-f84e-50e7-9024-2000a357141b

STIX ID: report--e62da96b-f84e-50e7-9024-2000a357141b

Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

Threat Score
35/100

Date Published: 2024-02-21

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Amanda Silberling

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A coordinated spam campaign organized via Discord has been used to target Mastodon and other fediverse instances by distributing bots and tooling through Discord, automating account creation and spam posting; the attacks have caused denial-of-service effects and increased hosting costs for smaller servers, while moderation is hampered by the decentralized nature of the fediverse.

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