Linux PPA Ransomware Scare is Light on Evidence

Hysteria is contagious online. One person’s worry becomes another’s conviction, and that belief hardens — the thrill of righteous outrage is addictive! This week saw claims a PPA is being used to distribute Linux ransomware go wild online — but is it true? The story is a bit long, and a bit dry but it goes like this: A user said they tried to install WinBoat (a tool for running Windows apps on Linux) but it wouldn’t connect to FreeRDP. So they tried FreeRDP from different sources, to no avail. Then, they saw a comment on GitHub about a custom […]

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