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From: Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-announce@l.g.o, Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Hostile takeover of our github mirror. Don't use ebuild from there until new warning!
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 00:58:35
Message-Id: B2CF19A4-A791-4CA4-9F59-0E28F80244D2@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Hostile takeover of our github mirror. Don't use ebuild from there until new warning! by Richard Yao
1 > On Jun 28, 2018, at 8:46 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 >> On Jun 28, 2018, at 5:15 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) <klondike@g.o> wrote:
5 >>
6 >> Hi!
7 >>
8 >> I just want to notify that an attacker has taken control of the Gentoo
9 >> organization in Github and has among other things replaced the portage
10 >> and musl-dev trees with malicious versions of the ebuilds intended to
11 >> try removing all of your files.
12 >>
13 >> Whilst the malicious code shouldn't work as is and GitHub has now
14 >> removed the organization, please don't use any ebuild from the GitHub
15 >> mirror ontained before 28/06/2018, 18:00 GMT until new warning.
16 > Is the attacker using the account “gentoogang”?
17
18 Nevermind. After reading other mailing list threads, it is clear to me that he was the attacker. :/
19 >>
20 >> Sincerely,
21 >> Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
22 >> Gentoo developer.
23 >>
24 >>
25 >
26 >