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1. your purple friend (maffsie@queer.party)'s status on Friday, 01-Apr-2022 16:03:58 UTC your purple friend

   a heads up: I got word from one of the ~threat intelligence~ companies that had listed queer.party as malicious. It appears that a user was using the text of profile itself as a means of command and control or..something like that. User has been suspended, registrations are limited, and I'm doing a review on other accounts, but i imagine queer.party isn't the first and won't be the last to be abused in this way.

   #mastoadmin

   • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 05:03:39 UTC Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

     in reply to

     • :pine: the :pine:

     @t54r4n1 @maffsie

     I've seen reports of various Mastodon instances being misused as C&C for botnets and even some control function of a mod pack in a computer game (this last being not as bad as full on malware but still taking the piss and pushing a burden on to someone else rather than developing their own servers)

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   • :pine: the :pine: (t54r4n1@mspsocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 05:03:42 UTC :pine: the :pine:

     in reply to

     @maffsie I would suggest reviewing your existing accounts carefully and not allowing users to invite for the short term until you have finished your review.

   • your purple friend (maffsie@queer.party)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 05:03:43 UTC your purple friend

     in reply to

     https://maff.scot/services/queer-party/rca-degraded-dns-reachability/ a report is now available for full information on what happened, why, and why i'm now suffering.