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Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/arch@programming.dev

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[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is this newly submitted packages which are malware, or existing packages which had malware introduced to them? And is there a list of affected packages anywhere?

[–] fistac0rpse@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

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

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