⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory
The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged List
channels dot im
https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-abandoned-and-unmanaged-domain-list/
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This domain is an ad farm along the lines of other known fediverse spam servers, with 45 accounts creating 6,500 posts per day leading to ad-laden web pages using content scraped and repurposed as news articles or blog posts.
The Mastodon service in use has hidden any local feeds, profiles, admin contact details, and exists purely to inundate feeds with posts that might lead to ad clicks.
A list of known spam services that federate their content is available at https://about.iftas.org/library/known-spam-fediverse-services/
This domain is an ad farm along the lines of other known fediverse spam servers, with 45 accounts creating 6,500 posts per day leading to ad-laden web pages using content scraped and repurposed as news articles or blog posts.
The Mastodon service in use has hidden any local feeds, profiles, admin contact details, and exists purely to inundate feeds with posts that might lead to ad clicks.
A list of known spam services that federate their content is available at https://about.iftas.org/library/known-spam-fediverse-services/
@iftas @VWDasher I thought something was sketchy about that site with the motoring articles (a shame as it managed to sometimes snag some interesting articles, and its hard to work out sometimes which of these sites are legit and which ones aren't as even the original sites the data is scraped from run a fuckton of ads (although I block the lot anyway)
This domain is an ad farm along the lines of other known fediverse spam servers, with 45 accounts creating 6,500 posts per day leading to ad-laden web pages using content scraped and repurposed as news articles or blog posts.
The Mastodon service in use has hidden any local feeds, profiles, admin contact details, and exists purely to inundate feeds with posts that might lead to ad clicks.
A list of known spam services that federate their content is available at https://about.iftas.org/library/known-spam-fediverse-services/