When logging into lemmy.world the banner now says “Israel - ni**a style” (full word unredacted) and it starts linking to lemon party and a bunch of other NSFW sites.
EDIT 2: MichelleG account admin was restored and she posted and update but shortly after the changes happened again. Her account is likely still compromised with someone else accessing things via it.
EDIT 3: lemmy.world back online. MichelleG has again been removed as admin. Most things appear to have been cleaned up. Blocked instances still need to be fixed however.
Worse. Admin account. The MichelleG account is an admin and it appears that it was compromised and is what is causing all the problems. It looks like they have removed it from admin so things wont get worse but they will likely take a bit to find and repair all the stupid little changes that were made.
Yeah the admins have said they’re hands off and all but one person managing the world community isn’t active since ruud doesn’t check his notifications.
Based on the Github / Rudd’s new post, it looks like there was an “Evil Post” that contained a Markdown-to-Javascript escape and actually allowed the hacker to run Javascript in our web-browsers. Something to do with custom emojis?
So the problem was multi-fold.
The hacker created the “Evil Post”, which constantly was stealing people’s cookies. Anyone who viewed the evil post in a web browser (Chrome/Firefox/Edge) allowed the hacker to have access to their account (and anything you can do in the web browsers).
The hacker waited until an admin viewed the post. Then took control of the administrator’s account, and likely a few other people’s accounts as well. DMs containing the evil-Javascript post were sent to various moderators.
Hacker used the account access to just troll us.
Fixing #3 doesn’t fix #2 or #1. So eventually, when #3 was fixed, the hacker just grabbed the admin-account and made everything back to the way it was.
The problem wouldn’t be fixed permanently until #3, #2, and #1 were all fixed. Which they seem to be fixed now. But this “evil post” is going around the Federation. Other Lemmy-instances may have the post cached, and the users on those lemmies will likely have their JWT cookie also stolen (allowing the hacker to take over people’s accounts those instances in a similar manner)
Personally I don’t use 2fa even though I want to. I use bitwarden for everything and I have no way to set up 2fa inside bitwarden. I can set it up through authy but prefer not to.
I use it everywhere but Lemmy because for whatever reason the link to set it up won’t give me a manual code or QR code it forces me to open it in an ap like Authy or Google Auth. Those are just the ones I have installed I’m sure others would work as well.
Narrator voiceover: In today’s lesson @ExcursionInversion learns that the world is not the USA and vice versa.
What’s the price in RMB and do they take payment by WeChat Wallet or Alipay?
Oh, what’s that? You don’t know what any of that even is?
Perhaps you’re not in a position to say “come on” then. Given that the site doesn’t even have i18n for the overwhelming majority of world languages, I’m pretty confident in guessing they don’t support a whole lot of payment options accessible to the bulk of the world as well.
So they don’t accept payment in RMB over AliPay or Wechat is what you’re saying?
What. A. Surprise.
Credit cards are incredibly unpopular here: I’ve literally not seen one in use that wasn’t by a tourist in a tourist-oriented shop in 20 years. “Debit card” is so vague it’s almost charming. Paypal isn’t easily available as an option in most of the world. (I, for example, to use Paypal, would have to jump through incredibly time-consuming and expensive hoops to use its ‘letter of credit’ option.) I don’t know what “ACH” is, but I can pretty much guarantee that I can’t pay from my bank account given the currency export restrictions, etc. etc. etc. etc.
So again: today’s lesson was “the world is not the USA and vice versa”.
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