▲ 1328 ▼ Tesseract dev injects malicious code into browser to illegally DDOS the dbzer0 instance (quokk.au) submitted 1 day ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 474 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 child) I'm pretty sure he also had "kate" in a regex too, which is a reasonably common woman's name in English. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago Just Kate, yes: "^Kate$", Those are dumb, but there are also a lot of regex without the $ (so any can follow) and a few without the ^ (so it can be anywhere in the name). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago Just Kate, yes: "^Kate$", Those are dumb, but there are also a lot of regex without the $ (so any can follow) and a few without the ^ (so it can be anywhere in the name). permalink fedilink source parent
