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Blender website under maintenance due to hacking attempt
- ralusek 6y agoWhat monster would hack Blender?
- c2h5oh 6y agoBlender users are one of the most profitable targets if you could get crypto mining malware on their PC.
- hanniabu 6y agoSeriously. There's so many worthy targets out there so much more deserving and here they are attacking a top open source project.
- esperent 6y ago... Autodesk?
- sporkologist 6y agoNo, more likely Microsoft Paint 3D
- Shadonototro 6y agoyou laugh, but i heard Microsoft wanted to offer their services for Blender Cloud I also heard some acquisition talks You'll be surprised what we hear when you can step into shareholders meetings ;) It's pretty common, microsoft is on the offensive stance these days ;) it's nasty, but "we are at war" right? i mean "they"
- Flex247A 6y agoI'd bet on Tux paint ;)
- chaostheory 6y agoSomeone who’s real target is Blender’s users.
- DarkStar851 6y agoYep, seeing a lot of these pop up lately. Probably an attempted supply chain attack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_attack edit: To be clear, if it was this, it wasn't successful. Blender team checked out the downloads and everything's fine. But that's a likely motive I'd say.
- c2h5oh 6y agoHardware you'd get for good performance with Blender also happens to be the hardware you'd get for crypto mining..
- kevincox 6y agoI'm confused by the word "attempt". If it was just an attempt why is the site down? Is it taking the site offline that thwarted the attempt? Or was the attack successful and they are working on mitigation and restoration?
- tinus_hn 6y ago- Perhaps they want to make sure they know what information was taken - Perhaps they want to make sure they know what happened so they can make sure it doesn’t happen again - Perhaps they need time to do a full restore just in case