Linux

14103 readers

184 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)

Also, check out:

Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

141

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

40 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd love to know what's going on with this. Arch has its haters but someone's putting a lot of effort into this

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It seems like some person with a bot just asked to maintain a bunch of orphaned packages, abusing the 2-week waiting period. Right?

Thats why they used npm; off the shelf, almost “standard practice” credential harvesting malware. Nothing too fancy.