Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
9 hours ago
- #security incident
- #malware
- #Arch Linux
- The Arch Linux AUR repository initially had over 400 packages compromised with malware.
- The number of affected packages increased to around 900 and then to more than 1,500, with a list citing 1,579 packages.
- Arch Linux developers have deleted all malicious commits they are aware of, though the list may not include all affected packages.
- This incident impacted a significant number of user-maintained packages in the AUR repository.