diff --git a/x11/xscreensaver/Portfile b/x11/xscreensaver/Portfile
index 785cbd32fc1..6fc745863f4 100644
--- a/x11/xscreensaver/Portfile
+++ b/x11/xscreensaver/Portfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ PortSystem          1.0
 PortGroup           active_variants 1.1
 
 name                xscreensaver
-version             6.09
+version             6.14
 revision            0
 categories          x11
 maintainers         nomaintainer
@@ -15,11 +15,15 @@ long_description    The xscreensaver program waits until the keyboard and \
                     demo chosen at random.
 
 homepage            https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver
-master_sites        ${homepage}
+# https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/under-attack-please-stand-by-2/
+# fetching distfiles may be broken due to protection against AI bots
+# unfortunately this will never be fixed, so let's append a mirror by FreeBSD
+master_sites        ${homepage} \
+                    freebsd
 
-checksums           rmd160  19f238c292438c4ba094f221301c0e8472da2eea \
-                    sha256  f4667705adb8cc43fd2f3973a88a1b54b16f20190afe93b21e221f2f57320b05 \
-                    size    22026182
+checksums           rmd160  84face4cda546964d7cc1c13d6fbb68b0294d741 \
+                    sha256  07f310eb60ece3a6c57abaa722d7209a2c4f54309a5a7b09b6eed20152d073f2 \
+                    size    25206667
 
 depends_build       port:pkgconfig \
                     port:intltool \
@@ -52,7 +56,7 @@ compiler.blacklist-append \
 configure.args      --with-app-defaults=${prefix}/share/X11/app-defaults \
                     --with-fontdir=${prefix}/share/fonts/TTF
 
-destroot.destdir    install_prefix=${destroot}
+destroot.destdir    DESTDIR=${destroot}
 
 post-destroot {
     # get it from font-bh-ttf