Xubuntu downloads section injection threatens users with crypto infection

Someone managed to insert a compromised file into the downloads section of the website for Xubuntu, the official Ubuntu flavor with the Xfce desktop environment. The malware was designed to steal cryptocurrency, but so far, there are no reports of actual theft. Investigations are continuing, but over the weekend, there were …

[sebacoustic]

install and use it, and you're safe

it's just if you continue to use Windows it will eventually bite

[FirstTangoInParis]

Well that's a pain

cos Xfce is actually more like a normal (well I suppose I mean Windows XP to 10 (and not 11, cos that's gone off the rails), but I wish I didn't) desktop than Ubuntu's default thingy, and hence familiar-ish to many. I wouldn't start newcomers to -buntus with Unity, it's just too bold and brash.