I saw a video on this yesterday. Apparently it's a crypto scam thing.
It's kind of obvious too, because it's when you went to click the "download torrent" it'd give you a zipped file with an .EXE inside called something like torrentdownloader.exe or something like that.
I mean, it's obvious for those of us that's been around the block of course, but maybe not for grandma or little billy. Although I don't know why they'd have crypto..
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Poor new Linux users. You choose a good starting distribution. This sucks hard. Linux isos are not exe files. You can also check the hashes, but I don't know anyone that does that on their personal PC.
And the hashes are displayed on the website that got compromised
To be fair, I doubt that someone who even knows how to verify a hash when would be presented with an exe instead of an iso would think that this looks fine.
I doubt they bothered to change them. And, if you know how to check hashes then you wouldn't run an exe file to download an ISO.
Hopefully this motivates distro makers to secure their services a little bit more than xubuntu never did. Plenty distro still serve files under unsecure connections.