It looks like lemmy.world has been hacked.
The instance has been defaced, the site is only intermittently accessible, sometimes it redirects to a random video or other nasty URLs
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LOG INTO LEMMY.WORLD UNTIL THIS IS CLEARED UP AND OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE MADE BY ITS ADMIN.
My recommendation is to stay away entirely for the time being and monitor this thread for updates: https://lemmy.ml/post/1895271 (https://lemdit.com/post/44963)
Update:
- It looks like this was caused by a compromised Admin account
- It may be attributed to an exploit introduced by a specific git commit that lemmy.world was using (not public).
Initial indications are that this was particular to lemmy.world and not a symptom of wider Lemmy vulnerabilities.
I just saw that too
Other discussion about this: https://lemmy.ml/post/1895271
Update: lemmy.world was briefly back to normal and there had been a post saying that everything was fine now - it’s not.
The site has just started doing the same thing again.
Please do not try using lemmy.world for the time being.
Update:
It looks like things are finally back under control at lemmy.world: https://lemdit.com/post/45464
Update:
- This is also affecting lemmy.blahaj.zone
- There are concerns that this may in fact be a wider Lemmy issue rather than a lemmy.world admin account hack
- Concerning issues being discussed in this thread: https://lemdit.com/post/45035
