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Xubuntu's Official Download got Compromised (www.youtube.com)

submitted 4 months ago by InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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Posting to spread the word and possibly help someone that may be affected.

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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Quite a bad compromise of Xubuntu's and Canonical's security and also embarrassing.

They're being a bit vague and dismissive of the hack at the moment, as far as I can see there is now only the 24.04 version linked on the downloads page (not even sure the download link works). The recent 25.10 release (released 10th Oct) is no longer visible and the blog posts visible talk about testing for 21.04 (posts from 2021).

So presumably they've reverted to an archived version of their site while they investigate?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

The download page is completely unreachable right now for me. Some parts of the website just throw 503 errors.