LXer: Warning — Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

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LXer: Warning — Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

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02-23-2016, 10:21 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,329 Rep:	LXer: Warning — Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System Published at LXer: Linux Mint is one of the best and popular Linux distros available today, but if you have downloaded and installed the operating system recently you might have done so using a malicious ISO image. Here's why: Last night, Some unknown hacker or group of hackers had managed to hack into the Linux Mint website and replaced the download links on the site that pointed to one of their servers offering a malicious ISO images for the Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon Edition. Read More...

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