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No. Their "here's also this unofficial repository of builds completely maintained by random community users... USE AT YOUR OWN RISK - You have been warned!" ArchUserRepository got the least used (often long abandoned) packages hijacked by some bad actors.
But "Less than 1% of the least used packages in the unofficial repository you were explicitly warned about got hijacked by people trying to infect oyur PC" would not have been an interesting headline gathering attention.
Ah, gotcha! Well, if it's any consolation, clearly I didn't click on the clickbaity headline to read the actual low-quality article :P