A number of years ago, the Linux Mint website was hacked and fake ISOs were uploaded. Since then, the team has put more emphasis on verifying ISOs you download to ensure they’ve not been tampered with ...

“I’m sorry I have to come with bad news,” wrote Clement Lefebvre, head of the Linux Mint project, before announcing Linux Mint suffered an intrusion; on February 20, “hackers made a modified Linux ...

Some Linux fans just got a hard lesson about the importance of double-checking install files. The Linux Mint team is warning users that hackers compromised the ISO (drive image) downloads for 17.3 ...

No one ever looks at checksums, claims the attacker behind the Linux Mint breach. That needs to change. The attack against Linux Mint’s website, where users were tricked into downloading a modified ...

If you downloaded Linux Mint on Saturday, February 20th, you may have unknowingly downloaded a hacked version of the operating system. According to a blog post on the Linux Mint site, hackers broke ...

Linux Mint users were exposed to a troubling vulnerability in February, when the Linux Mint website was hacked and distributed malware-infested ISOs for a day. The forum user database was also stolen.

The Linux Mint site was hacked recently, and the folks that did it pointed to ISOs that included a backdoor. Anybody who downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th should take action immediately, ...

I hope you weren't one of the hundreds of people who downloaded a compromised version of the Linux Mint operating system on Saturday. Because if you were, it's possible that you're not just running ...