"Mastodon's flagship server was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack on Monday, rendering the instance unusable at times and causing much of the site to be inaccessible."
"By 9:05 a.m. ET, Mastodon said it implemented a countermeasure against the DDoS attack, and the site is accessible, though some instability may continue."
"DDoS attacks rely on sending massive amounts of junk web traffic towards an app or website's servers, aiming to knock them offline without involving data theft."
"DDoS attacks have become exponentially more powerful over the years, with the largest attack recorded peaking at 29.7 terabits per second."
Mastodon's flagship server faced a distributed denial-of-service attack, rendering the site unusable at times. The company reported the incident and began investigating. By 9:05 a.m. ET, countermeasures were implemented, restoring access, though some instability persisted. This attack followed a similar incident at Bluesky, another decentralized social network, which had also experienced outages due to a DDoS attack. DDoS attacks disrupt services by overwhelming servers with traffic, and their power has increased significantly over the years.
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