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Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack
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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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What is even the goal here? It's just such a weirdly specific target. You could easil hit more people by supply chain attacks. Feels like some butthurt hacker wants to get their revenge on just Arch in general. I want to start a Manjaro-Takeover conspieacy theory rn
It seems like a continuation from the DDOS attacks that still happen from time to time. If I was going down the conspiracy rabbit hole, I'd think some group is trying to keep linux in the press with bad/scary news to drive away growing interest and arch seems like the easiest target atm.