Mastodon Says Its Flagship Server Was Hit By A DDoS Attack
Mastodon DDoS attack disrupts mastodon.social, causing outages and raising concerns over decentralized network stability.
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Mastodon Says Its Flagship Server Was Hit By A DDoS Attack
Mastodon DDoS Attack Disrupts Flagship Server, Causing Outages The Mastodon DDoS attack has raised fresh concerns about the reliability of decentralized social platforms after its main server, mastodon.social, experienced major disruptions. Users reported outages, error messages, and instability as the platform struggled to stay online. The company confirmed it was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack and quickly deployed countermeasures. While services were partially restored, the incident highlights growing cybersecurity threats targeting emerging social networks. Mastodon Confirms Cyberattack on Its Main Server The decentralized social platform Mastodon confirmed that its flagship server, mastodon.social, was targeted by a large-scale DDoS attack. The disruption began early in the day, leaving many users unable to access the service or encountering repeated error messages. According to the platform’s status updates, engineers identified unusual traffic spikes consistent with a…
