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From: R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hostile takeover of our github mirror. Don't use ebuild from there until new warning!
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:11:44
Message-Id: CAAD4mYjwpJ_X+35BtXxiWKnvkkMiN4SWKJNs5ZKoML13U4Vebg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hostile takeover of our github mirror. Don't use ebuild from there until new warning! by "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)"
1 On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 7:19 AM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera
2 (klondike) <klondike@g.o> wrote:
3 > El 29/06/18 a las 03:55, Duane Robertson escribió:
4 >> On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 23:15:36 +0200
5 >> "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)" <klondike@g.o> wrote:
6 >>
7 >>> Hi!
8 >>>
9 >>> I just want to notify that an attacker has taken control of the Gentoo
10 >>> organization in Github and has among other things replaced the portage
11 >>> and musl-dev trees with malicious versions of the ebuilds intended to
12 >>> try removing all of your files.
13 >>>
14 >>> Whilst the malicious code shouldn't work as is and GitHub has now
15 >>> removed the organization, please don't use any ebuild from the GitHub
16 >>> mirror ontained before 28/06/2018, 18:00 GMT until new warning.
17 >>>
18 >>> Sincerely,
19 >>> Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
20 >>> Gentoo developer.
21 >>>
22 >>>
23 >> Is it at all likely that any signing keys have been compromised? I
24 >> can't think of how that would happen, but I don't know much about the
25 >> situation.
26 >>
27 > If you mean the release signing key the answer is a clear no according
28 > to infra's forensics. If you mean specific developers' keys it is
29 > unlikely but not fully impossible as we still don't know how the
30 > attackers got hold of the compromised accounts.
31 >
32
33 I can't help but notice this was moved to gentoo-user. Are posts to
34 gentoo-dev being moderated properly, or should I not bother submitting
35 anything?

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