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2 | author: christel | |
3 | date: 2017-08-17 10:05:00+00:00 | |
4 | slug: spamwave | |
5 | title: Spambot attack | |
6 | category: community | |
7 | category: general | |
8 | category: freenode | |
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11 | Earlier this morning, the freenode network was hit by a fairly extensive spambot attack, the spambots were distributing links to images that | |
12 | users have reported as containing child pornography images. Naturally, we are escalating the attack to law enforcement, but we would strongly | |
13 | encourage users to be vigilant and careful not to open links from users you do not know. | |
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2880dd42 | 15 | While the attacks are ongoing we have chosen to update the default umodes for users to include +R, please note that this means you will not receive messages from unregistered users and you will need to /mode yournick -R in order to allow those to come through. If you choose to set yourself -R, please be cautious of clicking on any links from unregistered users that you do not know. |
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bf3783fb | 17 | At the height of the attack, one of the klines set resulted in a utility bot attempting to ban all users connected to the network, |
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18 | I can only apologise for this and we are looking into what happened. |
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2880dd42 | 20 | Again, apologies for the disruption and please be cautious. |