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How to know what links are malicious on Lemmy? (midwest.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by blackberry@midwest.social to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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title. I know Lemmy is global, so I'll see articles and links to sites that I have never heard of. I assume most content is good, but it's also the internet so there has to be assholes somewhere. any good ways to stay proactive about attacks?

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[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This isn't a problem with Lemmy, it's a problem with clicking on links in general. Most top search engine results anymore are crappy content mills serving who knows what ad network ads that may contain who knows what malware. You're probably way LESS likely, by an order of magnitude, to get something malicious from any given random Lemmy link than you are from any given random search engine result.

You can't do due diligence on every link you click on. That's absurd (at least for most people). The best thing you can do is make sure you have a reasonably hardened browser and reasonably secure operating system.

How hardened? How secure? Depends on your threat model.