The official website for Xubuntu, a community-maintained “flavour” of Ubuntu that ships with the Xfce desktop environment, has been compromised to serve Windows malware instead of the Linux distro. The malicious download Reports about a potential compromise began popping up on Reddit on Sunday, with users saying that instead of pointing to .torrent files, the download page served Xubuntu-Safe-Download.zip, containing a suspicious executable (TestCompany.SafeDownloader.exe) and a text file (tos.txt). “The TOS starts with Copyright (c) … More
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