defeating a fediverse spamwave

25 days ago by 🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈 to c/fediverse

i've found the source!!!

post is a screencap of https://cyberpunk.lol/...

EDIT: WE DID IT LEMMY

0ndead 47 points 25 days ago

I’ve been reporting spam coming from Spaceship domains for months now; I can assure you they DGAF :/

Here’s a list of valid addresses to forward spam back to, even though it hasn’t done me any good:

abuse@spaceship.com support@spaceship.com postmaster@spaceship.com ceo@spaceship.com

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TragicNotCute 38 points 25 days ago

ICANN is your next stop.

https://www.icann.org/...

Edit: I did some digging because I was curious. Spaceship looks like a related company to Namecheap (perhaps even fully owned by them). Business records in Arizona for Spaceship, Inc have the founder and CEO of namecheap and namecheap itself named.

https://www.bizapedia.com/...

https://www.namecheap.com/about/

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0ndead 5 points 23 days ago

Yeah, I found the Namecheap connection too. Can’t remember who bought who. The current CEO seems like a real slimeball.

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NorthWestWind 8 points 25 days ago

Realistically, why would they GAF? They aren't exactly doing something illegal. It's just morally wrong.

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artyom 13 points 24 days ago

Because someone like Google might block all of their domains and make the entirety of their products functionally useless.

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TragicNotCute 8 points 24 days ago

They have a contractual obligation to investigate and respond to abuse complaints. ICANN will punish them if they don’t.

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queerlilhayseed 23 points 25 days ago

Nice!

Thanks for doing the gumshoe work to protect this place, I appreciate it ❤️❤️❤️

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otter 15 points 25 days ago

Is there more context on what this is or what was happening?

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vantablack 28 points 25 days ago

lots of fedi instances have been getting hit hard with an absurd amount of spam signups

https://cyberpunk.lol/...

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SkaveRat 15 points 25 days ago

Abuse report is sent

and a couple hundred requests deleted from the queue sigh

What a bunch of slopped together crap

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antianarchist 8 points 24 days ago

a registrar will not care about random abuse messages that do not show clear illegal behavior or is not signed by any lawyers office
even if the domain get’s blocked, how long does it take to set up a new one? How long does it take to set up 100 new ones?
activitypub is by default very vulnerable and inefficient. Sources are not validated and the protocol does not have any mechanisms to protect itself from such attacks.

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ademir 1 point 20 days ago

Seems you were wrong

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antianarchist 2 points 20 days ago

For me the site is still online.

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Frenchgeek 4 points 24 days ago

Brb: Searching and playing the Dagothwave for a bit... Far more enjoyable.