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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.
Pretty scary, my desktop had the libgdata package left over as an orphan from something I had installed in the past. Thankfully I hadn't updated on the day of the attack, my package logs show my build of libgdata was from a February update instead.