⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory
The account "oscarolg" continues to proliferate across federated services, with over 50 accounts observed today
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@iftas @evan What is interesting about this is that almost every account (except one) I have clicked on is Spanish and have introduction posts saying that they love nature and want to post about wildlife.
And if you look up the TikTok account mentioned in most profiles, it's just 3 years of regular posting of local nature crudely filmed on a phone: https://www.tiktok.com/@videoabsurdos
Is this some long-game spam or someone that doesn't understand you have to be registered on every Mastodon instance?
@matt @iftas @evan
When I suspended this account back in October, the person appealed the suspension, asking for the reason, saying they didn't understand what they did wrong, although I already mentioned in the suspension that opening an account on multiple servers was the reason. The appeal was in Spanish.
It never occurred to me that this person may not understand the concept of federation and believed an account needed to be created on 18K instances.
Could this really be?
@admin @iftas @evan I have seen spam that starts out with posting "innocently" and then turns to be politically charged narratives (usually heavily pro-Russian content), but that usually turns in a matter of weeks.
I've never one that links to another platform that has a posting history of related content that spans across multiple years. That sure is a long-game.
Maybe some of the instance admins can cross-compare email and IP addresses to see if it stems from the same account and location.
