As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.

  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Seemed a little exaggerated. Ddos is no joke with botnets, but a JavaScript? All the script kiddies would be doing it.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
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      Dude went and created an absolute drama baiting post designed to get a lot of viistors to it, then put spite code in it.

      It was a DDOS attempt. It doesn’t matter that it was unskilled and childishly amateur, the point is how unhinged this dispshit got