{"id":172597,"date":"2023-09-23T02:24:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T07:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/free-download-manager-releases-script-to-check-for-linux-malware"},"modified":"2023-09-23T02:24:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T07:24:24","slug":"free-download-manager-releases-script-to-check-for-linux-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/free-download-manager-releases-script-to-check-for-linux-malware","title":{"rendered":"Free Download Manager releases script to check for Linux malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/free-download-manager-releases-script-to-check-for-linux-malware2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The developers of Free Download Manager (FDM) have published a script to check if a Linux device was infected through a recently reported supply chain attack.<\/p>\n<p>Free Download Manager is a popular cross-platform download manager that offers torrenting, proxying, and online video downloads through a user-friendly interface.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/free-download-manager-site-redirected-linux-users-to-malware-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaspersky revealed<\/a> that the project\u2019s website was compromised at some point in 2020, redirecting a portion of Linux users who attempted to download the software to a malicious site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of Free Download Manager (FDM) have published a script to check if a Linux device was infected through a recently reported supply chain attack. Free Download Manager is a popular cross-platform download manager that offers torrenting, proxying, and online video downloads through a user-friendly interface. Last week, Kaspersky revealed that the project\u2019s website [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}