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Linux Mint Website Hacked, Users Tricked Into Downloading ISOs with Backdoors

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Marius Nestor
Feb 20, 2016

According to Clement Lefebvre, leader of the Linux Mint project, it appears that a group of hackers created a modified Linux Mint ISO, which included a backdoor. Then, they hacked into the Linux Mint website and modified the download links to point users to the malicious ISO image.
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Marius Nestor

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