lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone got hacked, admins in sopuli.xyz should enforce 2fa for admins and possibly disable/ look into possible injections from the community sidebar

  • QuentinCallaghanMA
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    1 year ago

    I just enabled 2-factor authentication because of this. Script-kiddies are not gonna capture this instance!

    • ananas
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      1 year ago

      It’s highly unlikely 2FA is enough to mitigate this kind of an attack. It’s a security vulnerability in lemmy itself, and they are stealing your access token instead of trying to log in as you.

      edit: People, please, no reason to downvote admin ACKs. Just means they’ve at least read the message, after that, it’s their instance and they’ll do as they see fit.

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      1 year ago

      If they’re stealing sessions that might not be enough. I saw some other mitigations discussed elsewhere.

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        1 year ago

        Create new accounts & make them instance admin instead (they have to make a local comment to be made admin). Then remove your “browsing” accounts from admin group until patched.