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Image uploads are now disabled on lemm.ee due to malicious users (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sunaurus@lemm.ee to c/meta@lemm.ee

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Sorry for the short post, I'm not able to make it nice with full context at the moment, but I want to quickly get this announcement out to prevent confusion:

Unfortunately, people are uploading child sexual abuse images on some instances (apparently as a form of attack against Lemmy). I am taking some steps to prevent such content from making it onto lemm.ee servers. As one preventative measure, I am disabling all image uploads on lemm.ee until further notice - this is to ensure that lemm.ee can not be used as gateway to spread CSAM into the network.

It will not possible to upload any new avatars or banners while this limit is in effect.

I'm really sorry for the disruption, it's a necessary trade-off for now until we figure out the way forward.

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[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

Did you alert authorities?

[-] lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

I'm going to go out on a limb and say they and all the other instances that were hit with this attack probably did. Which authorities, I don't know. If this instance is hosted in Estonia then probably Estonian authorities, but it's probably being hosted on the cloud so is it REALLY hosted in Estonia? There are a ton of American and EU users so hopefully the FBI and whatever the EU equivalent is. But honestly cybercrimes can get confusing because of the nature of people and hosting being spread out all over the world and it can be hard to even figure out who to report to.

[-] infinipurple@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Europol in Europe. But you can report it to your national cybercrime division and they can refer it to the appropriate authority if necessary.

[-] coffee@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think they made it onto this server, with the 100kb upload limit in place, that was already a rather low risk. It's a preventive measure. So far lemmy.world was the one deliberately targeted.

this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023

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