I see quite a lot of webfinger requests to my ActivityPub server with the User Agent set to "Identity Collector/3.0.0 (+local defensive OSINT collector)".
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I see quite a lot of webfinger requests to my ActivityPub server with the User Agent set to "Identity Collector/3.0.0 (+local defensive OSINT collector)".
Anyone knows what that is about?
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I see quite a lot of webfinger requests to my ActivityPub server with the User Agent set to "Identity Collector/3.0.0 (+local defensive OSINT collector)".
Anyone knows what that is about?
@pmakholm Interesting. Any hints from the client IP addresses? One address, many, using proxies, etc.?
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@pmakholm Interesting. Any hints from the client IP addresses? One address, many, using proxies, etc.?
@Steve_Bate Seems to be dynamic IP from a single ISP.
Some of the accounts is is requesting is well known names like torvalds, gvanrossum, and dhh. Others are just ben and jess and then some seemingly random id based.
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I see quite a lot of webfinger requests to my ActivityPub server with the User Agent set to "Identity Collector/3.0.0 (+local defensive OSINT collector)".
Anyone knows what that is about?
@pmakholm I grepped my logs for OSINT and saw this one from 38.242.221.77 "Mastodon/4.7.1 (http.rb/5.3.1; +https://osintua.eu/) Bot"
"This server is hosted by OSINTukraine.com, its purpose is to host a set of bots auto-sharing DeepL translated post from the Russian and Ukrainian Telegram ecosystems."
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I see quite a lot of webfinger requests to my ActivityPub server with the User Agent set to "Identity Collector/3.0.0 (+local defensive OSINT collector)".
Anyone knows what that is about?
In theory I would approve of scanning instances for systematic impersonation of well-known users.
But re-checking the same username repeatedly during the day seems a bit overeager.
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