I got a warning from my firewall my phone was accessing by a malware site. Odd, I’m just relaxing and scrolling through Lemmy on voyager.
Seems it’s been calling out to qu.ax which has a rather terrible reputation.
Does voyager keep a log of where it’s been calling out to?
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Like others said yeah. Could be any link or image.
If you are concerned use a DNS filter app.
On android I can recommend the PersonalDNSFilter app available on fdroid and play store
are you sure it’s voyager? it could be any app in the background.
Frankly it could be anything. Someone could be adding tracking pixels or similar to their posts. Then recording the IP that access it and mining for data.
Most Lemmy instances do not proxy images. This means every little profile picture, every thumbnail, etc, are all downloaded from different servers. There’s very few privacy protections in clients either. It’s most likely you just scrolled past a page with a post that had that as a link.
For example,
<- this isn’t actually a real image, but your client will try and download it. And you’ve just sent your IP address and browser information to it.
I think someone posted a video from that domain? I just checked my phone and realized I had downloaded the video, and sure enough, it appears to be from that domain… Hopefully no one trying to spread malware?
Edit: looks like it came from the post about the Brazilian reporter commenting about Bolsonaro getting sentenced. Can’t find it to link now.
Hey I did see that one! Weird it was hosted by something so seedy.
This domain looks like basic public file hosting that is likely being abused enough to earn the warning. I think not everything it hosts is seedy.
Have you tried tracking the web traffic directly on your phone to know for sure what app is accessing that site?
App tracking was disabled when this happened. I turned it on. I had some stuff in the background but nothing that’s really reach out to anything new. The phone app, the photos app, my bank app, etc. it had to be something voyager was told to do.
