With an announcement that no one expected, Clement Lefebvre, its head Linux Mint project, stated that the Linux Mint website had been compromised and that hackers had managed to tease, and make available a malicious ISO of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon.
If you download the Cinnamon version before Saturday and download it from HTTP link you are in danger.
It is worth noting that since the violation has been revealed, malicious ISO has been removed so it is safe to download the files again.
Posting to blog by Lefebvre explains how users can check the MD5 signature for any ISO they think might be "teased".
Users now discovering that they have downloaded some infected ISO are recommended to delete it immediately, format it on the USB sticks that passed the file, or throw the burned DVDs.
For those who have used ISO to install the operating system on their computer, things are much more dangerous…
If you are one of them, you should proceed directly to the following steps:
Take off your computer offline.
Back up personal data,
Reinstall the operating system (from a clean ISO) or format the partition,
Change all passwords accesss that you used on your computer, on the Web, and especially in e-mail accounts.
