▲ 34 ▼ The Arch Linux AUR had over 400 packages compromised with malware (www.gamingonlinux.com) submitted 2 months ago by GamingBot@lemmy.zip [M, B] to c/gaming@lemmy.zip 3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Pheta@fedia.io -2 points 2 months ago (1 child) damn, linux heads are real quiet. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child) This is the fourth? post I've read about it. The AUR (Arch User Repository) consists of user-submitted content. It's equivalent to installing game.exe from somewebsite.com, so not surprising that it would be used as malware vector. Some are suggesting Arch is being targeted due to rising popularity of the Arch-based CachyOS. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dil@piefed.zip 1 point 1 month ago* Have to use paru instead of pacman to grab from aur on cachyos too and it isn't recommended, I think I only ever had blender from there since it worked better with my amd gpu than the official tar, cachyos repo, and the flatpak. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child) This is the fourth? post I've read about it. The AUR (Arch User Repository) consists of user-submitted content. It's equivalent to installing game.exe from somewebsite.com, so not surprising that it would be used as malware vector. Some are suggesting Arch is being targeted due to rising popularity of the Arch-based CachyOS. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dil@piefed.zip 1 point 1 month ago* Have to use paru instead of pacman to grab from aur on cachyos too and it isn't recommended, I think I only ever had blender from there since it worked better with my amd gpu than the official tar, cachyos repo, and the flatpak. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dil@piefed.zip 1 point 1 month ago* Have to use paru instead of pacman to grab from aur on cachyos too and it isn't recommended, I think I only ever had blender from there since it worked better with my amd gpu than the official tar, cachyos repo, and the flatpak. permalink fedilink source parent