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Warning from Malwarebytes about a compromised instance? (self.support)

submitted 1 year ago by sortofblue to c/support

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I really wish I knew more about this stuff, but every time I switch from Local to Subscribed Malwarebytes gives me a popup warning me that lemmy.world is compromised and blocked (even though I'm still seeing posts from communities there) but that's all it's telling me. Should I be avoiding that instance?

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[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's probably out of date.

Lemmy.world had an administrator account compromised. It was traced to a security issue in the Lemmy software and was fixed pretty quickly.

This all happened maybe a ~~week or two ago~~ (edit: it was a month ago. There's a post here)? Reasonably recent, so they probably haven't removed the warning yet.

[–] sortofblue 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, I wasn't sure where to look for more info, since MWB wasn't very forthcoming. I was sure that if there was something dodgy happening there'd be outrage somewhere about it but everyone seems pretty normal.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, it was big news at the time. There was at least one other instance compromised, but lemmy.world was the biggest.

We even had a lemmy.nz post about it here: https://lemmy.nz/post/325329