Frédéric Jacobs on Nostr: As Mastodon adoption grows, attackers are also looking at leveraging it for hostile ...

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/