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Linux Mint Website Hacked, ISOs Replaced With Backdoored OS

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This thread's last reply is from February 24, 2016, 10:13 PM UTC. Software, malware, and removal-tool advice below may be out of date — treat specific steps and download links with caution.

capnkrunch MRU Master
February 24, 2016, 4:48 PM UTC
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.

Source: The Hacker News
Gary R Administrator
February 24, 2016, 10:13 PM UTC
It only applies to Mint Cinnamon 17.3 (Rosa) versions, and was only up for 1 day 20th Feb 2016, so if you downloaded a copy of the ISO on that day, then you need to run a hash check on it to find out whether you've got a bad copy or not.

https://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/17.3/md5sum.txt

https://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/17.3/sha256sum.txt