Post #3213622
2026-06-04 08:22 UTC
As Mastodon adoption grows, attackers are also looking at leveraging it for hostile activities.
Sekoia explains how Russian malware used Mastodon encrypted post updates as a dead drop resolver to tell the malware where to exfiltrate data:
"[Mastodon] posts were consistently updated four times per day at uniform intervals with a variance of only a few minutes”
https://blog.sekoia.io/fsbs-matryoshka-3-3-gamaredons-gifts-that-keeps-unpacking-gammasteel/
Replies (4)
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@ariarhythmic@ohai.social 2026-06-04 11:01
@fj@mastodon.social You should know better than making people look at AI slop
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@kaito02@mastodon.social 2026-06-04 11:28
@fj@mastodon.social did you draw this
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@liaizon@social.wake.st 2026-06-04 11:33
@fj@mastodon.social hey @matt@writing.exchange did you see this? They are using write.as in part of this campaign
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@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net 2026-06-04 15:04
@fj@mastodon.social er, yay for our resilient infrastructure I guess 🤷♂️