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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/62150833
Decided to create a thread for tracking and sharing the news and opinions on the new Malicious Atomic Arch NPM Campaign in which more than 1600 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit.
Find the infected packages: https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA
Most popular packages on the affected list
Package Popularity Affected Reverted libgdata 16.98% (2026-06-11 14:59+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:30+00:00) python-future 5.38% (2026-06-11 15:58+00:00) (2026-06-11 16:54+00:00) gdl 3.36% (2026-06-11 13:35+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:32+00:00) libquvi-scripts 2.31% (2026-06-11 15:05+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:33+00:00) libquvi 2.22% (2026-06-11 15:04+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:33+00:00) gtkimageview 2.19% (2026-06-11 13:44+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:33+00:00) python2-pyparsing 2.02% (2026-06-11 14:23+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:40+00:00) python2-appdirs 1.96% (2026-06-11 14:22+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:26+00:00) compiler-rt19 1.95% (2026-06-11 14:23+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:30+00:00) python2-packaging 1.90% (2026-06-11 14:21+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:38+00:00) wine-nine 1.86% (2026-06-11 15:48+00:00) (2026-06-11 21:36+00:00) clang19 1.86% (2026-06-11 15:36+00:00) (2026-06-11 21:24+00:00) clang15 1.76% (2026-06-12 12:34+00:00) (2026-06-12 12:54+00:00) mono-addins 1.69% (2026-06-11 15:33+00:00) (2026-06-11 21:34+00:00) python2-chardet 1.68% (2026-06-12 12:42+00:00) (2026-06-12 14:48+00:00) python-monotonic 1.55% (2026-06-11 15:43+00:00) (2026-06-11 21:37+00:00) python2-cffi 1.47% (2026-06-12 12:44+00:00) (2026-06-12 15:10+00:00) alvr 1.26% (2026-06-11 13:54+00:00) (2026-06-11 16:50+00:00) python2-gobject 1.23% (2026-06-12 12:44+00:00) (2026-06-12 14:47+00:00) vidcutter 1.03% (2026-06-11 13:24+00:00) (2026-06-11 17:43+00:00)Learn more about the attack: https://www.sonatype.com/blog/atomic-arch-npm-campaign-adds-malicious-dependency.
I know, and I answered accordingly. I gave an alternative to install packages, because its not recommended to use AUR on Steam Deck.