The Gentoo distribution replaced GitHub mirror καθώς φέρεται να έχασε τον έλεγχο από κάποιον που παραβίασε το αποθετήριο κώδικα.
In a prenotice, Gentoo project announced that the attacker managed to gain control of Gentoo's Github on June 28 at 11:20 a.m. Greek time.
"All Gentoo code hosted on github should be considered hacked at this time," the statement said.
The Gentoo project has stated that its infrastructure is considered secure and that the users should be fine if they rsync or webrsync from gentoo.org.
A suspension in the gentoo-dev lists that the attacker replaced all portage and musl-dev trees with ebuilds that would try to remove all the files from the end user system.
Although the malicious code should not work as GitHub is now restored, please do not use any ebuilds from the GitHub mirror acquired before 28 / 06 / 2018, 9: 00 (Greece time) until the next communication.
The distribution has not provided further details on how the attack.
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