429

With the recent hack, there is now irrefutable proof of malicious actors trying to break Lemmy and steal user accounts. Please be careful about entering your password into random Lemmy apps! (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by sunaurus@lemm.ee to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

105 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I think for a while leading up to the recent session stealing hack, there has been a massive amount of positivity from Lemmy users around all kinds of new Lemmy apps, frontends, and tools that have been popping up lately.

Positivity is great, but please be aware that basically all of these things work by asking for complete access to your account. When you enter your Lemmy password into any third party tool, they are not just getting access to your session (which is what was stolen from some users during the recent hack), they also get the ability to generate more sessions in the future without your knowledge. This means that even if an admin resets all sessions and kicks all users out, anybody with your password can of course still take over your account!

This isn't to say that any current Lemmy app developers are for sure out to get you, but at this point, it's quite clear that there are malicious folks out there. Creating a Lemmy app seems like a completely easy vector to attack users right now, considering how trusting everybody has been. So please be careful about what code you run on your devices, and who you trust with your credentials!

(page 2) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] Coopa@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

What about the app Memmy for iPhone ?

[-] wakest@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Memmy is good!

[-] buycurious@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I don’t think this one is going to fall in the “malicious” category.

It’s on the iOS App Store, so I’m under the impression that a code review would’ve snuffed that out.

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (4 replies)

[-] corytheboyd@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Feels like this will be a very common occurrence with people rushing to build and use new apps, and host new servers. There are plenty of positives to fediverse vs centralized, but it doesn’t come without negatives.

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I've been wondering that myself. I've only entered my pw into Jerboa, which is made by the Lemmy devs (and Liftoff once, but changed the pw since).

Now I only ever use FOSS apps, which all seem to be under some amount of scrutiny, but idk how much is enough.

I've always been particularly wary of Voyager/wefwef. Not that I wouldn't trust the devs, but the whole concept of entering a password into a 3rd page that only passes it onto the right page, damn that's just dumb on principle.

It's particularly weird since this is home for so many techies and privacy/security advocates.

[-] similideano@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Its less dumb than entering it into a regular app compiled into an apk, which is more opaque (even if it's also FOSS). Voyager you can host it yourself.

load more comments (2 replies)

[-] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

All of the apps have you enter your credentials into their page because Lemmy doesn't support OAuth2. I don't think it's fair to criticize Voyager for a problem that is currently inherent to all Lemmy apps.

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yea but it's a local form on the device and not a 3rd party server, which is another layer of insecurity. And I'm not sure how much of the rest of communication needs to get proxied too.

I dunno, that's just way beyond my comfort zone unless I really want to self-host that stuff.

Anyway, okay, nothing seems to be all that well secure at this point.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

Trying to break Lemmy, yeah, let's prosecuted those bastards, but... WHAT. COULD. BE. MORE. WORTHLESS. than my account?

You are welcome to the scintillating points I have made. Bask in their brilliance.

[-] nekat_emanresu@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Is this a password manager ad?

[-] sma3in@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

it's about time to change that password and i think lemmy team should have an option in the settings to revoke access we give to third party apps....not sure if that's possible

[-] puffy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Apps are bloated(they store a lot of cache on the disk) , just use the website.

load more comments

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023

429 points (96.5% liked)

Lemmy

11948 readers

1 users here now

Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

nutomic@lemmy.ml