Paul Hoffman on Nostr: There is a large-scale impersonation attack happening on Mastodon. People are ...
There is a large-scale impersonation attack happening on Mastodon. People are registering typos of real people on mastodon.social and then following people who the real people follow. I’ve gotten two different ones today.
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2026-10-17 15:06:06 UTCEvent JSON
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