Mastodon Hit by Major DDoS Attack Following Bluesky Incident

Mastodon, a decentralized open-source social networking platform, experienced a major DDoS attack shortly after a similar incident targeted Bluesky. The attack caused a significant outage but was resolved within a few hours. No specific technical details, such as attack vectors, traffic volume, or threat actors, were disclosed in the report. The timing suggests a potential pattern of coordinated DDoS activity against alternative social media platforms. Neither exact dates nor CVE identifiers were mentioned in the incident description.