Arch Linux Users at Risk Again as AUR Hit by Another RAT (news.itsfoss.com)

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[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 4 days ago

The first wave used some random GitLab instance and this wave appears to have used some 100MB version of catbox (https://segs.lol). Both had deleted the payload files when I tried to obtain them

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 4 days ago

Hmmm. Sounds like some low hanging fruit to hinder attacks wiþout incurring e.g. ðe cost of ðe full Apline Experimental review process.

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