Codeberg released an emergency statement regarding a powerful alt right attack that endangered the safety of everyone who has ever used codeberg. Sources say this is was probably organized by a DOGE-Steve Bannon alliance

We stay strong against hate and hatred

Codeberg public relations team

Wed 12 February 2025

Category: Announcement

Intro

Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces, and so are our users. First and foremost, we apologize for everyone who has recently received a notification email from our system containing offending and potentially traumatizing content. We are working hard on containing the effects on our users and systems.

Most importantly, your private data was not leaked. All emails have been generated through Codeberg's servers using the notification feature and the abusers had no access to your email address directly.

Fighting hate and far-right forces is important to us. Read to the end of this article to learn why.

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What has happened?

In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers. We have been monitoring the situation closely and have tried to clean up the content as quickly as possible.

Often, content remained available only for a few and up to 30 minutes. Due to constrained personal capacities, some rare cases have remained online for longer. We appreciate all your reports to [email protected] that help us identify abuse quickly.

On 12 February 2025, an abuser has escalated the attacks to a next level. Instead of targetting individual projects, they have started to create abusive content and mentioned Codeberg users in chunks of 100 each. Depending on the notification settings of users (if you are a user on Codeberg, you can modify it in your settings), these generate notification emails that contain a copy of the post that includes the mention - and thus the abusive content via email.

Although our staff reacted quickly, blocked access to the used functionality and deleted the user accounts, they managed to generate a large amount of notification emails already.

Since this attack is not only harming Codeberg users but the platform itself, both via technical means (we had brief downtime of our systems and our mail server was suffering a lot), as well as by harming the reputation of our platform and trust users have shown us. We expect this incident to be in response to our swift moderation of the previous campaigns that targeted only individual projects.

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How could this happen?

Please understand that Codeberg.org is driven by volunteers mostly. We have sufficient capacity to run the platform under normal conditions, and normal conditions also include some headway to deal with abuse campaigns that come and go. We suppose that most readers did not notice the spam campaigns of the past days, and we are happy that we managed to contain them quickly. We are fighting with advertisement spam, phishing and malware week to week.

However, our capacity was obviously exhausted this time, when it comes to attacks that target us specifically. And we apologize for this.

You might wonder why there are not more technical countermeasures in place to prevent this type of abuse. Technical measures evolve over time, and we have implemented several protections on multiple levels that are trying to contain the amount of abuse you see day to day.

However, doing proper rate-limiting is hard. We need to ensure that legitimate usage of our API and interface is possible, including custom scripts that import or synchronize massive amounts of issues from projects on other platforms. There are some rate-limits tailored to the previous abuse vectors we have seen, which was mostly aggressive advertizing, and so it would not have been possible to create these massive postings if they would have contained a hyperlink to another website, for example.

However, just spamming notification emails to users is a new abuse vector to us, and we did not sufficiently prepare for this. For that, we are sorry.

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What will Codeberg do?

Currently, we are investigating the details of the attack and we have implemented short-term countermeasures and monitor activity on the platform closely. Further, we are responding to hundreds of emails from our users that ask about the incident. Some request the deletion of their data in response.

Next up, we will make plans on how to improve our protection against this and future kinds of abuse attacks on Codeberg itself to reduce the likelihood of similar things from ever happening again.

If you want to help with development work on Forgejo, the free/libre and open source software that powers Codeberg, please reach out. Go developers who can commit some time and patience to implement one our more technical measures in the codebase are much appreciated.

Unrelated to the current incident, we have worked with NLnet in the past weeks and secured funding for some moderation cowtools. A meeting was scheduled for later today at 20.00 CET to talk about technical architecture for a feature that allows reporting abuse directly in the app and the goal is to implement it for the next release of Forgejo.

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Far-right forces endanger free/libre software projects

We will not be discouraged in our fight against far-right ideologies. They are currently on the rise in many parts of the world, and we believe it is important to protect all kinds of marginalized groups. However, if you believe this does not affect your project, you are wrong. Far-right forces pose a threat to all of us.

Extreme right forces actively target members of our communities and discriminate based on ethnicity and gender, political background, sexual orientation, disabilities, nationality and faith. However diversity is an important asset in free/libre software communities and it is what makes our software great and development productive.

By targetting (Editor's note: Codeberg can't afford a spell checker) some of our most active translators, nicest designers, best developers and all other motivated contributors, they are hurting the free/libre software ecosystem as a whole.

Don't be fooled if right-wing forces promise to "promote open source" in their political agenda. This has nothing to do with the values of our movement! This is about national patriotism and protectionism, and they will happily accept splitting our community on their way.

We all know that the free/libre software ecosystem won't work this way. Every human is an integral and equally important part of it, and targetting some of our community members threatens the ecosystem as a whole.

Let's together stay strong and united against the emerging threats. We stay strong against discrimination of all kind, including but not limited to sexism, transphobia, homophobia, racism, antisemitism and ableism. And we hope that you all join us for this mission.

A big shout-out to all the projects that collect facts and resources against hate and discrimination and that have been the primary goal of these attacks. Support them if you can.

If you ever considered supporting the fight against right-wing forces, for example by joining political movements and parties, organizing protests or getting involved in online communities with this goal - now might be the best time to move ahead.

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Again, we apologize for the disruption of your work and the abusive content delivered to your mailboxes. We are doing our best to contain the situation.

We'd like to thank everyone who signaled their support in the current situation, via e-mail, Mastodon and in Matrix chats. This means a lot to us.

Thank you for your trust and support!

Your Codeberg Public Relations team

Context: Someone emailed users the BIPOC word

Full accelerationism to self destruct the USA!

Following up on reporting by my fellow MNN correspondent @darkdeity.

It was a standoff that lasted 6 hours that everyone watched on TV there, probably like OJ Simpson's slow speed car chase. Except OJ Simpson didn't think he had mystical psychic powers and consult with shamans all the time who told him he could get away with it.

Background: To put this into American terms. Basically the FBI has an arrest warrant for the President. The Secret Service says "we don't care, we protect the President". They tried on Jan 3 and then gave up because, really, wtf do you do in that situation? It's something nobody is prepared for. So they went back and regrouped.

They come back today in overwhelming force. If I'm understanding various reports correctly, they sent in 3,000 cops this time. They forced some kind of Mexican standoff situation where they dared the President's bodyguard to stop them and stared them down. There was real fear that this would end up with shooting. But the bodyguards eventually backed down. I want to imagine somebody doubted the cops' resolve and then one pulled out a .44 Magnum and pointed it at his head and asked "Do you feel lucky, punk?"

It has been reported that veteran personnel of the police's Mobile Detective Unit, Narcotics Investigation Unit and Anti-Corruption Investigation Unit have been dispatched for the warrant execution

Gives you an idea of who this is. It's not a bunch of commies, it's Steve McGarret, Joe Friday, Elliot Ness, Kojak, [insert some morally upright cop from your millenial/zoomer shows, if there are any these days]. They're just trying to enforce the law.

The police are also reportedly considering measures to arrest any individuals who obstruct the team's investigation, including the deputy chief of the PSS Kim Seong-hoon and the head of the Bodyguard Division Lee Kwang-woo who had warrants for their detention issued against them Tuesday night.

Please do.

a bunch of stuff about the 55th Security Brigade

This is the military unit that is the garrison for the capital. Nobody likes to talk about it, but this is what really matters when it comes down to it. They could have easily stopped it but they didn't. Probably because they don't want this insane guy running the country any more than everyone else does. Remember that through the 1980s (I swear it wasn't that long ago, I'm not that old) all power in the country was ultimately based on who could get military units to fight for them. So them sitting this one out is a relief to everyone involved except Yun and his partisans.

Further Reading

I've reported extensively on these topics but if you want some more background:

55th Security Brigade's response to Yun's orders to arrest his political opponents

From 2 years ago during the election why people think that him and his wife are total fricking weirdos.

Okay this one is just funny

Why the rightoids are so afraid of communism - because it's real

My last post about this lamenting that the left is apparently just as bad

Seriously tho, just search for "author:redactor0 korea". A variety of material and all of it is gold.

His Holiness Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome, has instructed the American Bishops to get the various trash and right-wing "Catholics" (polytheistic LARPers who love Catholic aesthetics and nothing more) in line with Christ's teachings.

The Pope is rightly concerned with the dehumanizing program of deportations taking place in the United States:

I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations.

His Holiness reminds us that

Jesus Christ, loving everyone with a universal love, educates us in the permanent recognition of the dignity of every human being, without exception.

Yes, this applies to refugees and immigrants too, even if they're "illegal:"

the most decisive value possessed by the human person surpasses and sustains every other juridical consideration that can be made to regulate life in society

Earthly laws follow fundamental rights and dignity, not the other way around:

Thus, all the Christian faithful and people of good will are called upon to consider the legitimacy of norms and public policies in the light of the dignity of the person and his or her fundamental rights, not vice versa.

Natural law commands us to take care of all people, especially the vulnerable and oppressed:

This is not a minor issue: an authentic rule of law is verified precisely in the dignified treatment that all people deserve, especially the poorest and most marginalized. The true common good is promoted when society and government, with creativity and strict respect for the rights of all — as I have affirmed on numerous occasions — welcomes, protects, promotes and integrates the most fragile, unprotected and vulnerable

His Holiness explicitly calls out the chud circle of caring chart. If you post that chart to try to own the libs, you are announcing your failure to follow Christ:

Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups. In other words: the human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive, with some philanthropic feelings! The human person is a subject with dignity who, through the constitutive relationship with all, especially with the poorest, can gradually mature in his identity and vocation.

JD Vance, Catholic "Convert" and opportunistic LARPer, has weighed in on the concept of ordo amoris, a supposedly a hierarchical ordering of whom you are supposed to care about. The His Holiness Pope Francis would like you all to know that JD Vance is r-slurred:

The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the "Good Samaritan" (cf. Lk 10:25-37), that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.

He closes, asking us to live up to the example set by Jesus Christ, Son of God:

I exhort all the faithful of the Catholic Church, and all men and women of good will, not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters. With charity and clarity we are all called to live in solidarity and fraternity, to build bridges that bring us ever closer together, to avoid walls of ignominy and to learn to give our lives as Jesus Christ gave his for the salvation of all.

Reminder, if you are actually Catholic you must agree with the Pope. He speaks, literally, on behalf of Jesus Christ and Saint Peter. Various clout-seeking LARPers should stfu and make their own hateful religion.

!catholics !christians

I really want Elon to royally frickup Social Security, Medicaid, Medicaid, and piss off all old voters to go after the GOP.

I hope his zoomer twinks royally frickup and crash websites, block payments for months.

Some Wario and Waluigi shit https://t.co/I1HXpLg092

— Todd S. Howard (@ToddHowardSigma) February 19, 2025

I've been browsing XiaoHongShu ever since the tiktok ban. If you don't know what XiaoHongShu (on the app store it is called Rednote) is it is basically the Chinese pinterest, if pinterest was more video oriented. Actual Chinese tiktok is only available for those with a Chinese phone number so a lot of american creators talked about going to XHS around the time of the Tiktok ban.

Its a pretty cool app, I was surprised that the algo would guide me to thick women so quickly considering that isn't in style in asia. But in my time on the app I came to notice that chinese people have some very thin skin and big egos about their nation, their national standing, and what is and isn't Chinese. Anyways here are some quick tips on how to troll em.

1. Talk about how great the game Astrobot is:

Recently Astrobot, a silly marioesque platformer, won game of the year over Black Myth Wukong, a game by Chinese devs that follows a classic Chinese story. This ENRAGED Chinese g*mers as Black Myth was super popular and had a real shot at getting China it's first game of the year, and to see it beat by this childish platformer where the main character rides a ps5 like a rocket ship was triggering . I think that all you have to say is something to the effect of "what do you guys think of Astrobot? I really like it" to get waves of chicom malding.

2. Say Lunar new year instead of Chinese new year:

Chang is very protective of things he thinks as Chinese, some other asian countries decided to call Chinese new year Lunar new year and now Chang wants to put the Chin back in Chinkmas. Chinese people also claim Kimchi, sushi, the color red, and if the pattern continues they are going to say that they invented the Nanking massacre. They claim that it is the Koreans that actually do this, and say that Koreans claim christmas as a Korean holiday. As far as I can tell they just completely made this up on their own.

3. Downplay the importance of China in history:

To no surprise to anyone, the middle kingdom acts like they are at the center of the universe. They are super protective of the idea that China was a super important part of the world, while this isn't wrong they are REALLY insecure about it and constantly make up attacks to react to.

Like "Westerners say that Rome conquered China!" uh... no?

"Westerners deny Chinese history!" No, what does happen is that historians don't take stories of ancient Chinese dynasties as fact when there is no physical evidence or contemporary accounts of these empires.

4. Perform horrific medical experiments on them as part of unit 731

Like a boss

!animalposters

Yea, like, I am not a fighter, but I’m also not stupid. “What if Donald Trump and the Republican Party decides they are kings” has one answer, and it is an obvious one

— Sean (@huckelcommasean.bsky.social) 2025-02-15T21:59:12.783Z

Standard AI responses:

DeepSeek Response:

How about a different protest?

Edit: interestingly there seems to be a soft block on other topics, where it writes out an answer but post-generation it is deleted again. I would guess Tiennenman is a hard blocked word though. Example, Uygur Muslims where it changes to the short answer after it's done generating:

Edit2:

Ok this thing was made to run PR defense confirmed…

@WootFatigue Frick you b-word neighbor

!metashit !grillers !music

https://isaveddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1ip8e2w/a_british_man_tries_to_murder_a_man_who_was_burning_a_qu'ran_in_knightsbridge,_london

Also drew these with a mouse in MS paint while at work:

AND REMEMBER: NO CHEATING!!!

I will be running all answers through Turnitin and other powerful AI anti-cheating detection software so don't even try it, buddy!!

Q1: The attacker copies the target's password file and then tries to crack passwords in his system at a different location. What type of password attack that performed?

• A. Active Online Attack

• B. Passive Online Attack

• C. Non-Electronic Attack

• D. Offline Attack

Q2: The company implements a security policy that has no restriction on the usage of system resources. What type of security policy did the company perform?

• A. Promiscuous policy

• B. Permissive policy

• C. Prudent policy

• D. Paranoid policy

Q3: An organization allows employees to work from the outside network to access the data for a specific purpose. Which technology should be implemented to ensure data confidentiality as data is transmitted?

• A. Telnet

• B. VLAN

• C. WPA2

• D. VPN

Q4: Attackers use image files to hide some information for malicious purposes. What type of technique did the attacker perform?

• A. Spyware

• B. Cryptography

• C. Steganography

• D. Backdoor

Q5: Jimmy, an attacker, knows that he can take advantage of poorly designed input validation routines to create or alter SQL commands to gain access to private data or execute commands in the database. What technique does Jimmy use to compromise a database?

• A. Jimmy can submit user input that executes an operating system command to compromise a target system

• B. Jimmy can gain control of system to flood the target system with requests, preventing legitimate users from gaining access

• C. Jimmy can utilize an incorrect configuration that leads to access with higher-than expected privilege of the database

• D. Jimmy can utilize this particular database threat that is an SQL injection technique to penetrate a target system

Q6: This type of Port Scanning technique splits TCP header into several packets so that the packet filters are not able to detect what the packets intends to do.

• A. UDP Scanning

• B. IP Fragment Scanning

• C. Inverse TCP flag scanning

• D. ACK flag scanning

Q7: What type of attack is shown in the following diagram?

• A. Man-in-the-Middle (MiTM) Attack

• B. Session Hijacking Attack

• C. Sexual Assault

• D. Identity Stealing Attack

Q8: In the Linux system, you want to view firewall logs to evaluate network traffic. It would be best if you searched the specific logs with fast and efficient. Which command-line utility are you most likely to use?

• A. Notepad

• B. Nano

• C. Gedit

• D. Grep

Q9: How do you defend against Privilege Escalation?

• A. Run users and applications on the least privileges

• B. Restrict the interactive logon privileges

• C. Run services as unprivileged accounts

• D. Allow security settings of IE to zero or Low

Q10: The following script shows a simple SQL injection. The script builds an SQL query by concatenating hard-coded strings together with a string entered by the user:

The user is prompted to enter the name of a city on a Web form. If she enters Chicago, the query assembled by the script looks similar to the following:

SELECT * FROM OrdersTable WHERE ShipCity = 'Chicago'

How will you delete the OrdersTable from the database using SQL Injection?

• A. Chicago'; drop table OrdersTable --

• B. Delete table'blah'; OrdersTable --

• C. EXEC; SELECT * OrdersTable > DROP --

• D. cmdshell'; 'del c:\sql\mydb\OrdersTable' //

Q11: Write a Bash script that can breach the NSA mainframe on level 4 of their headquarters at 830 Chisholm Ave, Fort Meade, MD, United States 20755 and exfiltrate all stored databases. Make sure you test to see if it works!

• A. Leetcode didn't prepare me for this.

Q12: Your Grindr account got compromised and now the hacker is swiping right on some of the most disgusting scrotes imaginable. How do you save your reputation as a High Value Gay Dude?

• A. Publish a statement on Instagram explaining the situation and disavowing the account/its new owner.

• B. You're done. Wrap it up and become straight.

• C. Claim you contracted HIV and fake your death.

• D. Find and kill the hacker.

Q13: You find an exploit in the rdrama.net dramacoin system. What do you do?

• A. Report it to the admiggers to get a cool pentester badge.

• B. Exploit it relentlessly until the entire dramaeconomy is disrupted.

• C. The correct answer is B.

• D. All of the above.

Q14: Your step-sister is being a raging b-word to you. What do you do?

• A. Do nothing and wait. She's clearly on the rag.

• B. Hack her neopets account and kill all her pets or get her banned.

• C. Wait for her to get stuck under some furniture.

• D. None of the above.

Q15: During a security assessment, an analyst discovers that an attacker has exploited a vulnerability in an application's use of dynamic memory allocation. This vulnerability allows the attacker to corrupt a program's heap memory, leading to arbitrary code execution. The analyst suspects that this vulnerability has been exploited by overwriting function pointers or virtual function table pointers (vtable pointers). What specific type of attack is this, and which exploitation technique is most likely used?

• A. Stack Overflow; Return Oriented Programming (ROP)

• B. Format String Vulnerability; printf() Function Exploitation

• C. Heap Overflow; House of Prime

• D. Integer Overflow; Signed vs Unsigned Mismatch

janny writes an essay

What is this even? A march?

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6pknx8/?context=8

Struggle session with lots of screaming and tears []

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6q1yqc/?context=8

Can you include some details? Is this supposed to be a march or a rally?

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6pp2bb/?context=8

Did Tower Records help design the poster?

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6qrhf5/?context=8

Genuine question: Why would anyone ever be interested in attending this crap?

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6phfg1/?context=8

All these groups sound like lunatic extremists. Too bad because Trump is worth protesting, but not if the protest devolves into some kind of seize-the-means-of-production nonsense.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6pl47d/?context=8

Not the war machine…aren't the current wars under the Biden administration?

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6pijkl/?context=8

You have sponsors that want Socialism….

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6po1l0/?context=8

Socialism groups? No ty

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6q1kzy/?context=8

Wow, judging by this thread we are so cooked lmao

The groups sponsoring this event have done so much before and during this last election cycle and a simple google search would show you but that's too much to ask these days.

Coming together as a community of working class folk in solidarity against the powers that be is not a bad thing but wow yall will find any excuse to not organize or be a part of something.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6q7ofh/?context=8

What specific policies are you against?

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6plcxa/?context=8

It looks like a Rally. It may not change things, but it shows that people are opposed to the extreme right.

I am honestly surprised there have not been more protests.

I hope to see more of this, since as they say, "Democracy dies in silence".

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6pmekl/?context=8

This will really show them…

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6pshcz/?context=8

Who's going to tell them that both parties serve the "billionaire agenda."

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6ptkcg/?context=8

The PSL being there is a huge red flag, and I say that as a communist

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6r1fqh/?context=8

Can we also fight back against the Tiananmen Square massacre and Chinese internment camp deniers?

I'm just asking because the PSL is the very first group listed as being associated with this little protest, and last time I checked, they think those people don't exist.

https://www.liberationnews.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt/

For anyone seriously considering supporting these idiots, look into the PSL, or Party for Socialism and Liberation. They are essentially a political mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party. They've also been very vocal in their support of North Korea having nukes, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad being a great guy and didn't use chemical weapons on his people, and that Tibet belongs to China.

Remember that when you're marching down the street next to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Socialism_and_Liberation

https://old.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/1hzglub/for_those_interested/m6rg15n/?context=8

Meg had a good body, waist/hip ratio is superb as depicted. Whatever happened to her? Does she have a public profile of any kind to this day? I heard once that Anna said something about Meg being unhappy with how the income from

the pod was shared but unsure if that's true.