Found this article that you may want to know if you downloaded a copy of Linux Mint on February 20, 2016.
Linux Mint is one of the best and popular Linux distros available today, but if you have downloaded and installed the operating system recently you might have done so using a malicious ISO image.
Here's why:
Last night, Some unknown hacker or group of hackers had managed to hack into the Linux Mint website and replaced the download links on the site that pointed to one of their servers offering a malicious ISO images for the Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon Edition.
"Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack our website to point to it," the head of Linux Mint project Clement Lefebvre said in a surprising announcement dated February 21, 2016.
Who are affected?
As far as the Linux Mint team knows, the issue only affects the one edition, and that is Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition.
- Warning — Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System
Please destroy all copies both physical or logical by erasure.
Note - Torrents were not affected! See for more details Warning — Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System
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