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Arch Linux AUR Malware Campaign Hits Multiple User-Contributed Packages (linuxiac.com)

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

The AUR is unsafe by design. It's not intended to be something you just install from willy-nilly. It's intended to be a helpful way for arch users who know what they're doing to exchange a convenient way to install arbitrary packages. But you should always be just as wary of it as copy/pasting shell code from a random person on the internet.