Beware of hacked ISOs

[Overlord]

Beware of hacked ISOs if you downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th!
Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack our website to point to it.
More info: Beware of hacked ISOs if you downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th!

 

[Rishi]

This is why verifying checksum is important to avoid the man-in-the-middle attacks, some privacy oriented OS like Tails make extensive use of signed openPGP keyring and web of trust to make sure you only get the legit ISO without any added modifications. I hope the cyber-forensics track down the responsible.