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Timeline Of Events: Linux Mint Website Hack That Distributed Malicious ISOs (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the point-of-entry dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Linux Mint website was hacked last night and was pointing to malicious ISOs that contained an IRC bot known as TSUNAMI, used as part of an IRC DDoSing botnet. While the Linux Mint team says they were hacked via their WordPress site, security experts have discovered that their phpBB forum database was put up for sale on the Dark Web at around the same time of the hack. Also, it seems that after the Linux Mint team cleaned their website, the hackers reinfected it, which caused the developers to take it down altogether.

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  1. Re:WordPress ??? by MightyMartian · · Score: 3, Funny

    Which is how we got Joomla, which is the IE 7 of CMSs.

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  2. Re: WordPress ??? by Billly+Gates · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only as bad as IE 7? Oh OK then

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  3. Re:STFU by stooo · · Score: 3, Funny

    >>Name a better CMS.
    Notepad.

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  4. Re:WordPress ??? by houstonbofh · · Score: 3, Funny

    The problem with idiot proofing things is that they keep coming out with better idiots.

  5. Re:STFU by JustOK · · Score: 3, Funny

    notepad++

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