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Arch Linux Users at Risk Again as AUR Hit by Another RAT (news.itsfoss.com)

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The question is always "how do you know" in security.

But it's not just AURs. DEBs have a long-standing gap in their package validation options ("how do you know that file is deployed as intended") and they're at risk.