MP3 – mintCast

396 – Ransomware Goes Wild

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First up in the news, Stallman goes manual on C, DNF5 arrives in Fedora, LibreOffice gets fumigated, GNOME comes into its Shell, they have put hair in the Blender, Avast buys your cookies, and Intel fogs the processor market;

In security and privacy, we have multi-stage malware, website leaks, and shell attacks;
Then in our Wanderings, Norbert is cutting corners, Moss tries a different mint, Joe keeps modding, and Bill fixes a broken Arch …again.

In our Innards section, Ransomware goes to school;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

The News
    • Beloved Browser Extension acquired by Not-So-Beloved Antivirus Firm 
      • Richard Stallman Announces GNU C Language Reference Manual
        • Fedora 39 Looks To Use DNF5 By Default For Better Performance & Improved User Experience 
          • LibreOffice 7.3.6 Is Now Available for Download, 50 Bugs Fixed 
            • GNOME Shell & Mutter 43 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes 
              • GNOME Shell on Mobile Is Shaping Up Nicely, Gets New Navigation Gestures, Quick Settings
                • Blender 3.3 LTS Officially Released with New Hair Workflow, Support for Intel Arc Graphics
                • Wave Goodbye to Celeron and Pentium, Hello Intel Processor
                        • Security and Privacy Update
                          • New Linux malware evades detection using multi-stage deployment
                            • Over 80% of the top websites leak user searches to advertisers
                            • GIFShell attack creates reverse shell using Microsoft Teams GIFs
                                    • Wrap-up
                                      • Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
                                      • Norbert – [email protected]
                                      • Josh T – [email protected], Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on Twitter
                                      • Nishant – [email protected],riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on DIscord, maverick00783 @ Steam
                                      • Moss – [email protected], you can hear me on Distrohoppers’ Digest and Full Circle Weekly News, and you can find more contact information for me on It’s MOSS.
                                      • Bill – [email protected], @wchouser3 on Twitter,and Bill_H on Discord

                                        • Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

                                        • Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, and all others for our audio editing
                                        • Leo for timestamps and publishing
                                        • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
                                        • Hobstar for our logo
                                        • initrd for the animated Discord logo
                                        • Londoner for our time sync
                                        • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
                                        • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
                                        • HPR for our backup Mumble room
                                        • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
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