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Monday, February 22, 2016

Linux Mint site hacked, users unwittingly download backdoored operating system

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 one of the more user-friendly flavours of Linux on your computer but also playing host to a Linux ELF trojan called Tsunami, that can be used to steal files from your system and launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.


Linux Mint site hacked, users unwittingly download backdoored operating system

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