Johanna, CanCon variety on Nostr: If you are someone who keeps a quiet alternate account as a bolt-hole, be aware that ...
If you are someone who keeps a quiet alternate account as a bolt-hole, be aware that a number of long-established instances are taking actions such as the one described below.
A very broad and ongoing malware operation has unattended Fediverse accounts being compromised and repurposed by malicious actors. More Admins of actively and responsibly managed instances are needing to take more steps to mitigate risks.
Log in to your secondary accounts every so often, please.
ANNOUNCEMENT will be placed on our timeline in a moment, but I'm also sharing as a post.
Due to the still-high levels of malicious spam coming from compromised accounts, wandering.shop will lock unused accounts as of 6 PM PDT this evening, October 18.
We are not aware that we are (yet) hosting any compromised accounts which are generating spam, but we cannot confirm that unused accounts here are not vulnerable to this ongoing malware script that is gaining access.
Published at
2026-10-18 20:28:07 UTCEvent JSON
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