Popular Wii U Emulator CEMU Has Been Offering Compromised Downloads for Days

Malware found in Linux builds of Cemu Wii U emulator

If you’ve downloaded the Cemu Wii U emulator for Linux from the project’s official GitHub in the past few weeks, bad news: it added malware to your system when you ran it. An announcement made by the team developing the open-source app say they recently discovered the Linux AppImage and ZIP of the Cemu 2.6 release available from their Github had been “compromised” with malware between 6 May and 12 May, 2026. The Cemu Flatpak, as well as installe…

Popular Wii U emulator CEMU has been offering compromised downloads for days

The CEMU development team has made an urgent security announcement, revealing that compromised files had been spread via its emulator builds by a "pro-Russian threat actor." Read more...