[tex-live] Possible security problem -- ctan mirrors at concertpass.com and hoobly.com

Paul Romer paul at paulromer.net
Sun Jun 17 01:51:02 CEST 2018


Today, Tex Live Utility tried to connect to a ctan mirror at concertpass.com.
This seemed unusual.

I looked on the ​​status page at https://ctan.org/mirrors/mirmon and saw a
few other .com mirrors in the US:


​
A Virus Total scan of concernpass.com and mirrors.concertpass.com showed no
malware, but when I looked a little further, it looks like there were
suspect files at hoobly.com in the recent past:


​
I will look for another security related address to send this information,
but thought I should what I have now.

Paul Romer
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