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@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 3y
It's probably out of date.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@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 3y
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@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 3y
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