Anyone else seeing spammy-looking signups from QUALITYNETWORK IP ranges? #mastoadmin
Definitely looks like a spam campaign. So far all accounts signed up from the same ISP. Here's a script you can paste in your rails console to find all users from IP ranges belonging to that ISP (assuming I didn't miss any):
To get to the rails console, run this in /home/mastodon/live as the mastodon user:
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails c
You might also want to temporarily ban those IP ranges if the sign-ups don't stop. I did.
Here's a slightly revised CIDR list that seems to cover all the IPs used by the spammers so far:
https://gist.github.com/patf/1ae99fdd15718483fc15b1e8c8f25fe2
(some CIDRs are redundant because they're from different sources)
Hopefully that'll do for now.
Here's a version of the block list you can dump in your nginx to get rid of the bots:
https://gist.github.com/patf/1ae99fdd15718483fc15b1e8c8f25fe2#file-naughty_list_nginx-conf
The advantage of using nginx here instead of your firewall/iptables is that you'll have an easier time checking for false-positives in logs (in case I fucked up); the bots follow a predictable pattern (GET / then GET /auth/sign_up) while real traffic would stand out.
cc @Gargron
