http://blog.level3.com/security/the-linux-mint-backdoor-how-bad-was-it/



This is a professional internet threat analysis done by Level 3 Threat Research Labs.   It is well worth reading as it makes a really good Primer about "innocence" in the age of paid hack attacks on Foss Distributions such as Linux Mint.    

(Multiple malicious paid for attacks done with some sort of goal in mind).

Many thanks to the Level 3 Threat Research people for kicking in their 15 cents for gratus ---- now Clem and his boys really have some hard choices to make and some real hard work to do since they were successfully broken into, hacked and multiple back doors installed into their web page system AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.

The Level 3 people have fingered the perpetrators -- now it remains for someone on the legal side of the EU to follow up with the criminal charges.

Now, if some EU criminal attorneys specializing in prosecuting "web crimes" would kick in their 15 cents worth of time and help then perhaps the perpetrators could be curtailed legally ..... given a nice long vacation from their crimes, in other words.


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Sorry for having to create a new thread, the old thread is giving off signals that it has been broken at post #9 and will not take a adder at this time.

Oldfeller

IS THE REPEATED PAID HACKING ATTACKS ON LINUX MINT AN INDICATOR OF SOME TYPICAL PC LAND "DIRTY POOL" ????

Petty criminals out to rip off a website for a quick buck will generally strike and then run off and hide.

Paid professional hacker jobs like the Linux Mint Hack job have the attacking people to stick around and to repeatedly try to despoil all items and efforts that they can get their hands on over a period of days, taking on some ongoing detection risks to themselves to do so.    

Persistence is a function of payday over in HACKLAND, in other words.