On Saturday, Linux Mint disclosed that someone had compromised their website and made changes to links in order to direct users to malicious downloads. Update (2/26/16): Level 3 Threat Research Labs ...

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 ...

Lefebvre wrote on Sunday, "Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack our website to point to it." Specifically, the hacker, whom we now know goes by Peace, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

Linux Mint hack: Anyone who installed the software on 20 February at risk flickr/ghostcero The website distributing popular open-source operating system Linux Mint has been compromised by an unknown ...