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Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] fistac0rpse@fedia.io 4 points 3 weeks ago

They're existing packages that were abandoned by the original authors and then had ownership claimed by malicious parties