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I’m not saying that this is related to Wikipedia ditching archive.is but timing in combination with Russian messages is at least…weird.

• worksonmine 7mo ago
  And they probably used mind-control to make the admin run random userscripts on his privileged account as well, the capabilities of russian hackers is scary. /s It is just another human acting human again.
  • tonymet 7mo ago
    Admin tasks are public in phabricator so it would be trivial to review chores and place malware in the chore's scope
    • worksonmine 7mo ago
      Which only makes it that much more important to review everything you're running with a privileged account, right? And if it really is as trivial as you say it should be fixed ASAP.
      • tonymet 7mo ago
        I mean it's trivial for any attacker to discover admin tasks and know where to place malicious code for the admin tasks to execute it.
• armchairhacker 7mo ago
  The script was uploaded in 2024, and triggered today because of an accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_stocks#Scott_Bassett_for_the_Mutually_Assured_Destruction_award https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_stocks#Scott...