Y’all. If any of you got a handful of notifications from my account for edited posts, I’m very sorry. I went back and removed all of the archive.is links I have used (about ten), replacing them with web.archive.org links.

If y’all don’t know, there’s a lot of shady stuff going on with that cluster of archive.* sites. Apparently for a very long time. But I didn’t know about it until recently. More info:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/417269/archive-today-started-including-malicious-ddos-code-on-its-site-what-should-we

#ArchiveToday #DDoS #Paywall #NoPaywall #WebArchive

@mttaggart It's also the most persistent and longest lasting #DDoS attack in history. Some of these #AI #scrapers are hiring mercenaries (like #RapidSeedbox), and using proxyjacking botnets and foreign SIM farms.

https://alicegotchained.faba.icu/2026/09/17/my-server-was-ddosd-by-a-seedbox-company

@davidgerard Thanks for the tip. Gonna prompt inject this onto my site now.

"llms.txt" is yet another instance of big tech #FAFO.

Why would I want to help out a #Clanker botnet that's been attempting to #DDoS my site by mass scraping without permission for about a year now?
I'd rather tell them to go execute ": () { :|:& };:" in the command line in order to get them off my infrastructure.

Censys ARC Principal Security Researcher @silas uncovered Moobot source code alongside active attack records, additional DoS tooling and a fraudulent identity verification service.
Read the research: https://censys.com/blog/open-directory-exposes-moobot-source-code-and-activity/

#CensysARC #ThreatIntelligence #ThreatHunting #Malware #DDoS

Alt...

Stylized illustration of five UFOs hovering over a dark landscape, each beaming up cows in orange light. A network of interconnected nodes stretches across the background, suggesting connected infrastructure or botnet activity.

TechCrunch: Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack. “Social networking site Bluesky says its recent day-long disruption was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that flooded the site with junk traffic. The social network confirmed the incident in a post on Monday, confirming the attack had taken place over the previous 24 hours.”

#Linux Botnet #Evooo1Bot Expands Mirai Capabilities Well Beyond #DDoS. The #botnet adds exploitation modules, credential theft, and reverse SOCKS relays to turn compromised devices into persistent attacker infrastructure.
https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/linux-botnet-evooo1bot-mirai-capabilities-beyond-ddos

We are aware of the issues with the tile.openstreetmap.org service at the moment and are investigating. #OpenStreetMap #DDOS

UPDATE: Service is now returning to normal, but we are continuing to investigate cause.