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 ...

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 ...

Installing Linux on a computer, once you know what you’re doing, really isn’t a difficult process. After getting accustomed to the ins and outs of downloading ISO images, creating bootable media, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Don't normally post here, so apologies if this is the wrong place or it's already been posted elsewhere. Apparently linuxmint.com has been hacked and any ISOs of Mint 17.3 Cinnamon directly downloaded ...

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, ...