396 – Ransomware Goes Wild

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


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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.

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!