tl;dr
LUV and HBIT (aka, Hivebits and the Wusang game) are on a pause at the moment, taking a break.
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Why?
There are odd things going on. I have a theory, but here's what is known...
May 28, 2025, at about 1:30 pm GMT (8:30 AM EDT), a second attack (for lack of better term) hit HBIT in about a week. It seemed to start with @tyler45 with this comment https://peakd.com/blog/@tyler45/comment-20250528125108033 tx: https://he.dtools.dev/tx/7e7d4126196ca5b6dbe0a04dcded0e25d3bcc7f4 See tyler45's activity at https://he.dtools.dev/@tyler45
Notice the reply and WUSANG command is to a post by @olivia897 and how many of the other WUSANG comments on the explorer are in reply to olivia897. It seems these are all auto-generated accounts. The names and "birthdates" and interactions all point to automation. Once initiated, things happened very fast on the back end, clearly not being done manually. In this way, this seems rather sophisticated technically. I estimate just over 400 HBIT were pilfered the other day from the @Hivebits account before I noticed and was able to shut things down.
Just for a little background, after the first attack May 21, 2025. I wrote a small bit of info: https://peakd.com/hivebits/@crrdlx/hbit-resource-credits
A couple of days ago this post by @holoz0r was interesting: https://peakd.com/hive-133987/@holoz0r/text-analytics-reveal-thirty-two-percent-of-comments-on-hive-are-not-unique-and-at-least-ten-percent-add-no-value-to-discussion The thing that caught my eye was that the WUSANG comment was the largest by far, along with BBH (hello @bradleyarrow), because the attackers used both commands.
Then, a few days later, things happened again: sudden start, repetitive bot attack, until I shut things down.
So, a pause
This is a period in my personal calendar where I simply don't have time to sit down at a computer for an extended period and try fiddle with this stuff. So, for now @Luvshares and @Hivebits (HBIT) and the @Wusang game are on hold. Plus, there's other fun stuff to do.
I go by @crrdlx or "CR" for short. See all my links or contact info at https://linktr.ee/crrdlx.
Really sorry to hear this! Hope you get it fixed, and if there is anything I can do to help, even if it is just brainstorming, feel free to contact me! Something like "United bot-owners agains spam" or something ;-)
Also thanks for sharing this information, I've followed the links you've shared, and found a treasure of information there as well. I'm not against bots (or humans), I'm not pro limiting, I'm for freedom, but when spam and abuse get in the way of freedom of others, it becomes a problem...
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I'm really sorry to hear this. I'll let @borniet know, since he handles the backend for BBH. This sort of stuff annoys the hell out of me. We have something incredible on Hive, and yet there are always people trying to game/take advantage of the system. I hope that you're able to find a solution, when your time permits, of course. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Hate this happens! And indeed, there are always people trying to take advantage of the system...
Thanks for tagging me here! Very useful information, and am "en garde" for our own systems now as well!
Yeah, it's kind of a bugger. Of course, brother, I'm glad that you saw it, and yes, I figured that such would be the case. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
Better to be a warned man... so keeping our eyes open now! ;-)
Indeed. I'm starting to pay a lot closer attention to everything, my eyes 👀 are peeled! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
I feel sorry for you😥. I wish you the best of luck in solving this problem🛠️
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Thanks, it's all good. The time out is good for me to think things over.
I'm sure you can handle it. Good luck!
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I did see a lot of random ass accounts using the command today when I looked at Hivebits RC :D
Can you not impliment a timelimit per user? Or a dynamic timelimit? or something like that to reduce attacks of these kinds in the future? :D
Good idea. This is the kind of thing I need time to work on and try.
You are welcome. I don't know what makes the most sense, to hit the least amount of real users :D
If you'd like, in a few days, when I have time, I can share with you some day on day numbers for various comments and the users that made them. Just let me know what strings you want me to look for and I can get it to you.
I'll extract the data for may in a day or so, then I should have full year to date if you want to track that far back.
Let me know, happy to help you identify the trend. I like data :D
Thank you. Yeah, it'll be a little time though before I get settled, week+ or two.
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Sorry to hear about the cheating that has disrupted your project.
It is unfortunately negatively impacting the use of the tokens. I was hoping that I could have a positive impact in trying to get more engagement with the associated tokens. Now, I guess I will put my effort on pause as well.
I have a few priority tasks that I need to do for my own project(s) and then I will come up with a way to boost the value of my holdings. Once I get more thoughts organized on this challenge I will contact you for a chat.
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Please take your time and sort things out then you can start again thank you