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

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Good idea to remember not to click zips or exes if you’re expecting a torrent file.

    Luckily this malware was relatively benign, changing bitcoin addresses to malicious ones in the clipboard, so if you don’t use crypto then you’re fine against this attack. No one’s funds have made it into the attacker’s wallet yet.

    • Chakravanti
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      4 months ago

      Stealing not-BTC-anymore just because the masses have been fooled doesn’t mean that everything you do can’t be tracked down unless you’re ackt-choo-choo-ally an asset of what the AI “see’s” backwards. Then they just won’t bother to even notice that their own IP address wasn’t blared over the TOR tracking log broadcast.

      You’ll get hung when you buy it off the bisq though so they can backwards slap the punishment of their own theivery when they steal what you paid for again.

      I bet you thought it was the drugs itself that made people crazy. MaKing an ULTRA blame game among those who chose not to read.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

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    So presumably they’ve reverted to an archived version of their site while they investigate?