From https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/blog/?p=664:

It appears that a specific web page on our site was compromised by a Ukrainian hacker group, exploiting it to distribute malicious software. Only a small subset of users, specifically those who attempted to download FDM for Linux between 2020 and 2022, were potentially exposed. It’s estimated that much less than 0.1% of our visitors might have encountered this issue. This limited scope is probably why the issue remained undetected until now. Intriguingly, this vulnerability was unknowingly resolved during a routine site update in 2022.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    Until yesterday they even didn’t know that they were hacked for years, then cleaned the file by accident when doing automatic updates; now they know who did that. Seems a way to shift blame

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Have you read the code? Ukrainian clowns were behind this, just like the node-ipc NPM incident. There is a thread on HN about it as well, if you want to read.