@LeberechtReinhold I can understand why it was done in the first place, but MS just blindly signing anything they are given is stupid, they should at least disallow binaries packed by themida or vmprotect.
vmprotect on a driver is an indicator of compromise, especially if the cert/opus info references a chinese entity.
@silverbax what are the odds on that being the same or similar for every other centralised social network? they only care about that magic MAU value and will tamper with it as much as possible to sell ads.
"ad fraud" is just something EVERYONE seems to be doing, and the big players just do it bigger.
@various_characters as far as I can see, the links are going to the original site (worldtracker[.]org), which is now redirecting to some sketchy website...
@crossmr thanks for this post, this server has been involved in spam for almost two months so I alerted the microblog side of fedi
I noticed dnc@vive.im was followed by two kbin.social users, and kbin has an "interesting" feature where a microblog post goes into the magazine named after its first hashtag (if it exists), hence why your subs are getting them
i think the two kbin.social users might have followed this user by mistake. i checked their profiles and they both look legitimate to me.
@anirbanbiswas I know you can on kbin (and all remote posts that aren't in a magazine go into a "random" magazine)
I'm not sure if you can on lemmy. Reading the documentation, you should be able to paste their URL into the search box, but it's not working for me on your server (although I'm not logged in there so that may be the reason why).
@wason not sure about lemmy. i know kbin has support with its microblog functionality and how any post coming in from a remote server that isn't to a group goes to a "random" magazine
@cjerrington yeah, I noticed how kbin has a "random" magazine where all the uncategorised posts coming in from remote mastodon/akkoma/*key servers end up.