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.


And this is why I run nixos on my steam deck. Ok not the reason but one of many.
Love Jovian
Since SteamOS also has immutability, I’m curious why you choose NixOS ?
You wanted more flexibility maybe ?