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submitted 7 hours ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] Muehe@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 hours ago

Well the script tag has a deprecated attribute called language, so in older code and media you will see <script language="javascript"> a bunch. The weird thing is they instead used the lang attribute which just doesn't exist.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Uh huh. Exactly.

this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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