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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: Only COMMUNISM can save us by lucm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We need a revolutionary workers party that Lenin and Trotsky would call their own.

    No! What we need is an all powerful nationalistic dictator who can "feel" terrorism and wave his satanic wand and do dark magic to fix everything!

    TRUMP/PALIN 2016

    TRUMP/PALIN FOREVER!!

    What's awesome is how disconnected from the truth your comment is.

    How is life on planet angry loon?

    this is the worst thread I've seen on Slashdot this year, I had to be part of it.

    #WorstOf2016SoFar

    --
    lucm, indeed.
  2. Re: Only COMMUNISM can save us by radiumsoup · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We need a revolutionary workers party that Lenin and Trotsky would call their own.

    No! What we need is an all powerful nationalistic dictator who can "feel" terrorism and wave his satanic wand and do dark magic to fix everything!

    TRUMP/PALIN 2016

    TRUMP/PALIN FOREVER!!

    What's awesome is how disconnected from the truth your comment is.

    How is life on planet angry loon?

    this is the worst thread I've seen on Slashdot this year, I had to be part of it.

    #WorstOf2016SoFar

    give it a week.