Security News > 2023 > November > Open-source Blender project battling DDoS attacks since Saturday

Blender has confirmed that recent site outages have been caused by ongoing DDoS attacks that started on Saturday.
"Since last Saturday, 18 November, the blender.org servers are under a DDoS attack; bringing down our servers by overloading them with requests," reads the announcement.
The threat actors responsible for the attacks on Blender and their motives are currently unknown.
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