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Arch Linux's Archinstall 4. 4 Adds Dank Material Shell + Niri Desktop Option
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (190+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Arch Linux's Archinstall 4. 4 Adds Dank Material Shell + Niri Desktop Option Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix. com and founded the site…...
Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 4. 4 Released with Niri Dank Material Shell Profile
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (241+ words) Archinstall 4. 4 has been released today as the latest stable version of the official installer for the Arch Linux distribution, with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Coming more than two months after Archinstall 4. 3, the Archinstall 4. 4 release introduces a Niri Dank…...
AUR Hit Again with Malicious Packages " Linux Magazine
1+ week, 2+ day ago (446+ words) The Arch User Repository (AUR) is a collection of user-created and submitted packages that are available to Arch and its many derivatives. Many could have predicted the AUR would fall victim to abuse " in fact, it has happened before, just…...
The Arch Linux AUR had over 400 packages compromised with malware
2+ week, 5+ day ago (328+ words) Update - 18: 55 UTC - The Arch Linux team put up an official announcement now: We are currently experiencing a high volume of malicious package adoptions and updates in the Arch User Repository. We are actively working to track down existing malicious commits…...
AUR Registrations Blocked Amid Ongoing Malware Mess
2+ week, 1+ day ago (485+ words) We've been telling you since Friday about an ongoing saga at Arch Linux over malware packages showing up in AUR, a user software repository that's pretty much unique to Arch. Since the repo contains mostly user-contributed software packages, it's been…...
Malicious apps got into the Arch User Repository - how to protect yourself
2+ week, 1+ day ago (861+ words) Researchers at software supply chain management company Sonatype found that the Arch User Repository contained about 1, 500 malicious packages, the company said in a blog post updated June 12. "We continue to encourage all users of AUR packages to review'all'PKGBUILD and install…...
Arch Linux AUR hit by malware targeting developer secrets
2+ week, 1+ day ago (234+ words) Attackers hijacked over 1, 500 packages in Arch Linux's AUR to plant a credential stealer. The official repos are safe, but the trust model took the hit....
Arch Linux Pulls the Plug on New AUR Registrations After Malware Flood
2+ week, 1+ day ago (427+ words) Arch Linux has disabled new account registrations on the Arch User Repository (AUR) as they work to contain a malware campaign that swept through the community package repository last week. The AUR is where Arch users look in for software…...
Russian Spam & Profanities Are Now Plaguing The Arch Linux AUR
2+ week, 2+ day ago (206+ words) After days of dealing with 1, 500+ packages in the Arch Linux AUR containing malware, the latest headache in the Arch Linux User Repository is Russian spam and offensive messages. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software…...
AUR to Arch: 'Houston, We've Got a Problem. .. We're Under Attack Again"
2+ week, 3+ day ago (389+ words) Yesterday morning at about 10: 30 EDT I told you that AUR's malware attack had ended, that more than 1, 500 packages containing malware had been found and removed, and that the accounts of the folks who submitted the package had been deleted. If…...