{"id":733561,"date":"2026-06-13T05:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733561\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T05:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:34:08","slug":"arch-linux-now-believes-malware-incident-under-control-more-than-1500-affected-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733561\/","title":{"rendered":"Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe day started out with Arch Linux’s AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised<\/a> with malware. Now in ending out the day they believe all affected commits have been addressed. But it ended up being more than 1,500 affected packages.<\/p>\n

It was bad enough when finding out more than 400 AUR packages for Arch Linux users had been infected with malware but now that number has risen to around 900 a few hours ago and now in the end at more than 1,500 user-contributed packages. <\/p>\n

In an update<\/a> a few hours ago, it was believed around 900 packages were infected by malware in this week’s incident. <\/p>\n

Then as of writing now, the last message in the thread over this security incident is noting<\/a> that Arch Linux developers have deleted all the malicious commits they are aware of. Cited was this list<\/a> that puts the number of malware-affected packages at 1,579! Tons of software in this user-maintained Arch Linux user repository were impacted by this nasty security incident. <\/p>\n

Even at 1,579 packages listed, that final updated noted, it’s a “list containing many (but not all) of the affected packages”. Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The day started out with Arch Linux’s AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,11359,11358,11356,11355,11362,11360,11357,11361,11354,11365,61,11363,11364],"class_list":["post-733561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-desktop-linux","tag-linux-benchmarking","tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","tag-linux-hardware-reviews","tag-linux-how-to","tag-linux-performance","tag-linux-server-benchmarks","tag-open-source-graphics","tag-phoronix","tag-phoronix-test-suite","tag-technology","tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","tag-ubuntu-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}