Danbooru Service Outage Caused by Malicious File Upload Compromising Accounts
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Executive summary
Danbooru suffered an outage and extended downtime due to a malicious file upload that compromised user accounts, triggering a security audit. The incident is unrelated to reported PHP vulnerabilities as their backend is built on Ruby.
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A malicious file was uploaded which compromised user accounts, leading to a prolonged outage while security audits are conducted.
Evidence
1 report · 1 BlueskyShow
- [1]Bluesky First reportdanbooru's outage is unrelated to that php vuln, someone uploaded a malicious file that compromised user accounts and they've said the long period of delay is because they're doing some sort of security audit while things are down(opens Bluesky post in a new tab)
danbooru's outage is unrelated to that php vuln, someone uploaded a malicious file that compromised user accounts and they've said the long period of delay is because they're doing some sort of security audit while things are down pretty sure their backend is ruby and not php anyway
by shikaspots.bsky.social 8upvotes 1comments
Timeline
- First report on Bluesky post
danbooru's outage is unrelated to that php vuln, someone uploaded a malicious file that compromised user accounts and they've said the long period of delay is because they're doing some sort of security audit while things are down
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