Post #2686050
2025-05-12 11:19 UTC
@ross@hachyderm.io Bad news: Many of these are plain old smartphones where the flashlight app is playing proxy (there was a toot about this a couple of weeks ago but can't find it rn)
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@ross@hachyderm.io 2025-05-12 11:21
@piegames@flausch.social six hour IP block with a message to uninstall malware from your devices. The internet is being eaten by rude AI crawlers and these proxies are the vector.
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@bertkoor@mastodon.social 2025-05-12 15:07
@piegames@flausch.social @ross@hachyderm.io This is a link I saved, there are probably many similar blogs of similar observations: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/02/Blocking-Stealthy-Botnets/