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.