Hacked Linux Mint

Attackers breached the website of Linux Mint, the third most-popular Linux operating system, and pointed users to malicious download links that contained a backdoored version of Linux Mint.

Impact

The backdoored version of Linux Mint was downloaded by hundreds of users on February 20th, 2016.

Type of compromise

Attackers compromised the publishing infrastructure, but not developer keys.

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