Seems pretty low effort, like some group of teenagers did it for "the lulz", yet it doesn't stop news organizations from breathlessly reporting hyperbole like "Unknown hacker group attacks popular...
Seems pretty low effort, like some group of teenagers did it for "the lulz", yet it doesn't stop news organizations from breathlessly reporting hyperbole like "Unknown hacker group attacks popular linux operating system, inject malicious code potentially affecting millions. The malware was designed to destroy users' files."
Truth is someone just added a rm -rf / into one of the install scripts. It was super easy to spot within seconds, and the way it was written it wouldn't have worked anyway. This is like a kid keying a car and the news saying "Malicious vehicle destroyer at large. Thought to carry a specially modified tool for permanently compromising a vehicle's exterior."
Luckily the main infrastructure isn't reliant on GitHub. I would say it was someone from /g/ or /tech/, since the jokes were imageboard-tier.
Seems pretty low effort, like some group of teenagers did it for "the lulz", yet it doesn't stop news organizations from breathlessly reporting hyperbole like "Unknown hacker group attacks popular linux operating system, inject malicious code potentially affecting millions. The malware was designed to destroy users' files."
Truth is someone just added a
rm -rf /into one of the install scripts. It was super easy to spot within seconds, and the way it was written it wouldn't have worked anyway. This is like a kid keying a car and the news saying "Malicious vehicle destroyer at large. Thought to carry a specially modified tool for permanently compromising a vehicle's exterior."That's pretty crazy. You don't hear about projects like Gentoo being hacked like that very often. I wonder what their end goal was.
Gentoo wasn't hacked, just GitHub (which is only used as a mirror, not for anything important to Gentoo).
I know. That's why I said I wonder what their end goal was. And why I started with that's crazy.