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Fake Arch Linux AUR packages impersonate yay/paru, deliver root malware
- Engineer — Learn: A useful reminder that community repositories like AUR lack the signing and review controls of official distro repos; engineers who use Arch on dev machines should verify package provenance, but this has minimal bearing on typical enterprise cloud workloads running Ubuntu/RHEL/Amazon Linux.
- SOC/IR — Skip
- Leader — Skip
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