Linux Mint received valuable help from Avast, which reached out to the OS maker following the attack and offered to analyze the hacked Linux Mint ISO file.

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 ...

If you downloaded Linux Mint on Saturday, February 20th, you may have grabbed a hacked version that includes a backdoor. Here's what you need to know.

The Linux Mint website was hacked over the weekend and the regular ISO of the latest distribution of the popular operating system replaced by a version that contained a backdoor. The attack ...

The first part is easy: Just download Linux from Mint or Ubuntu or whatever site hosts the version you want. That download will likely consist of a single ISO file.

ISO For a brief time on Saturday, February 20, users attempting to download Linux Mint might have downloaded a version that contained a backdoor.

The Linux Mint team has shown some features it's working on for Linux Mint 21.1 'Vera'. Additions include a new verification tool for checking the authenticity of ISOs and a better USB image writer.

In the first postintrusion blog post, the Mint team told users to consult the ISO’s MD5 checksum to ensure the downloaded file matched the string posted on the website.

Linux Mint site hacked 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 ...