[Qgis-psc] qgis.org was redirecting to /ru/site/ temporarily

[Nyall Dawson]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2022, 6:11 am Johannes Kröger (WhereGroup), <
johannes.kroeger at wheregroup.com> wrote:

> Hey you lovely people,
>
> this might have been a temporary configuration mistake or anything but
> in the current climate one has to assume a compromise/attack:
>
> Some minutes ago I was visiting qgis.org in my browser and the website
> was in cyrillic. I noticed the URL was https://qgis.org/ru/site/
>
> My requests came from a German IP and my browser locale should be set to
> something English so this was surprising and had never happened before.
> I am fairly sure that my system was not compromised.
>
> I checked with curl -I and I was being redirected to that language. A
> few moments later I checked again and it was back to /en/
>
> Here are my curl responses with the Cloudflare stuff if it helps
> pinpointing the moment or processes involved:
> https://pastebin.com/raw/36HwcxKW
>
> Not sure if this is the right mailing list but I didn't want to spread
> FUD on -user and no one was on IRC so this seemed like the best choice.
> Please forward it to people who can check the server(s) if they aren't
> reading here. Thanks!
>

For what it's worth -- I experienced this exact same thing a couple of
months ago (from Australia).

Nyall


> Cheers, Hannes
>
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