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.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 days ago

    That was my understanding but I’m not sure I agree with your conclusion though.

    My conclusion does align with yours, so I’m not sure what you mean. It is likely to be infected, because most people don’t use the AUR on the Steam Deck (because of the reverting back). And my conclusion was, if anyone is infected, then I would not trust the system anymore.