Major Malware Incident Hits Arch AUR!

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The episode discusses a malware incident affecting user-maintained packages in the Arch AUR.

Arch contributors are cleaning up a malware incident in the AUR after suspicious updates appeared across several user-maintained packages. REFERENCED: ► https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-aur-malware-campaign-hits-multiple-user-contributed-packages/ WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? 💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube 💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MW3ZFGS8Q9JGW 🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi 👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube DT ON THE WEB: 🕸️ Website: http://distro.tube 📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1 🗨️ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@distrotube 👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/ 📽️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2 FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I LIKE: 🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/ 📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/ 🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org 🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/ 💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/ 🗒️ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxC_QPqsZh0

People in this episode

Host: DistroTube

Topics covered

• malware
• Arch Linux
• AUR
• software security
• open source

Keywords

• malware
• Arch Linux
• AUR
• software updates
• security incident

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Arch, AUR, Linuxiac

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