this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2026
140 points (99.3% liked)

Technology

85390 readers
5521 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
140
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by rafssunny@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
41 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Thanks. The forum thread's beginning suggests a concerted effort around adding the line npm install atomic-lockfile to repos.

Searching for that I quickly found this: https://www.sonatype.com/blog/atomic-arch-npm-campaign-adds-malicious-dependency and related articles.

Then it seems to change to 'bun' and 'js-digest': bun add figures debug js-digest

Apparently both atomic-lockfile and js-digest are upstream npm/javascript packages that have been infected with datamining malware.

BTW, admins reported as of 12h ago it's all cleaned up.