Mastodon, the decentralized social network, suffered a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that disrupted its flagship server Mastodon.social. The attack began on April 20 and was largely mitigated the same day with full operations confirmed normal by April 21, occurring days after a similar disruption of Bluesky. #Mastodon #Bluesky
Keypoints
- Mastodon.social was hit by a major DDoS attack that caused an outage.
- The attack started April 20 at about 1 PM, mitigations were applied by 4 PM, and services returned to normal by April 21 at 11 AM.
- The incident followed a sophisticated disruption of the similar platform Bluesky just days earlier.
- A group calling itself 313 Team claimed responsibility for the Bluesky attack, but that claim remains unverified.
- Mastodon and Bluesky’s rising popularity after Elon Musk’s acquisition of X has made them higher-profile targets.
Read More: https://www.securityweek.com/after-bluesky-mastodon-targeted-in-ddos-attack/