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Active AUR malicious packages incident
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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2026
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This is why I prefer Flatpaks, or really any application sandboxing.
People not even checking the PKGBUILDs will also not check sandboxed applications to see if it was actually done properly...
AUR packages can be sandboxed with many different solutions. Any pckage can be sandboxed really.
This attack was executed by a script running in the PKGBUILD itself. You didn't have to run the application to be infected since just building it will infect your machine.
Yeah, I bet the build process could also be sandboxed, but Im sure its not the default.
Sandboxing the build process would be a process. Nix already does it, for example. Many AUR packages don't include a full list of dependencies.
It also had an install script that will be run as root when the package is installed. Can't sandbox that.