wakoinc on Nostr: Anatomy of a real-time Nostr (flood) spam attack. Reactions count seems high.. ok, ...
Anatomy of a real-time Nostr (flood) spam attack.
Reactions count seems high.. ok, which relay(s) also has a spike? Found it.
Here we can clearly see the spike in volume and identify it’s coming from a specific relay - and the volume matches too.
Ignore my dupe relay record ;)
Published at
2023-02-26 12:16:20 UTCEvent JSON
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