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Packages affected

Packages affected

Posted Jul 12, 2018 11:50 UTC (Thu) by feb (guest, #60129)
In reply to: Packages affected by jak90
Parent article: Malware found in the Arch Linux AUR repository

That's a typosquatting attack which LWN talked about a few years ago (https://lwn.net/Articles/694830/). In the case of Arch AUR packages, there's also the idea of targetting orphaned packages.


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