Attackers hijacked over 1,500 Arch Linux packages to steal developers’ secrets, no hacking required

Attackers hijacked over 1,500 Arch Linux packages to steal developers’ secrets, no hacking required

One of the largest open-source package repositories just spent a weekend cleaning up after a malware campaign that did not break into anything. It did not need to. Attackers seized control of more than 1,500 packages in the Arch User Repository, or AUR, the community-run software collection that sits alongside Arch Linux’s official repositories, and […]

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