Downloaded Cemu for Linux recently? You may have malware

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If you recently downloaded the Cemu emulator for Linux from the project’s GitHub, be aware: it may have added malware to your system. The team behind the Wii U emulator discovered that both the official AppImage and its Ubuntu ZIP assets for the Cemu 2.6 release available to download from GitHub were “compromised”. Cemu’s Flatpak was not affected, nor were the GitHub installers for Windows and macOS. To wit: if you downloaded Cemu 2.6 between 6 May, 2026 and 12 May from the project’s GitHub page or, as importantly, a third-party launcher which downloads a build from there instead, and […]You're reading Downloaded Cemu for Linux recently? You may have malware, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.