#aur Tech News.
2 stories in the last 7 days
The latest aur news, distilled by AI into sharp ~100-word summaries. ByteBrief tracks aur across dozens of tech sources and brings you only what matters, updated hourly. Tap any story for the full brief, or open the original source.
Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) and rewrote their build scripts to install a Rust-based credential stealer. The malware can also load an eBPF rootkit if run with root. The official Arch repositories were not affected. The campaign, named Atomic Arch, targeted orphaned packages whose maintainers had abandoned them.
An infostealer attack compromised hundreds of Arch User Repository packages. The malware targeted credentials and sensitive data from users who installed the affected packages. The incident raises security concerns about the trust model of community-maintained package repositories.
Summaries by ByteBrief