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Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware
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There were announcements and security ping in the arch Linux community discord... But I wish they'd be more vocal on this outside discord especially given discords controversy as of late
Update: they finally posted about it in the arch news feed last night... A bit late but better than never. Npm removed the malicious package, but then the bad actors started using bun instead...
As others have proposed, I really think that orphaned packages should require a moderator of the aur to approve the commit and acquisition of an orphaned package. Currently nothing stops someone from spinning up accounts and hijacking these abandoned projects
Thee's a official Arch Linux D*scord?
No it's unofficial but it's I believe the biggest/primary arch Linux community discord .
In their roles chanel you can pick one to get security pings.. major ones are typically also everyone pinged but some have those disabled
You'll pry #archlinux from my cold dead hands