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Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
(www.phoronix.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I've seen AUR warned against often, also by Arch team members.
I never thought it was a huge deal, but apparently anything that can be attacked will be attacked nowadays.
https://aur.archlinux.org/ warns you about it
This is what happens when a shit load of packages that just sit around basically unmaintained are allowed to sit around.
Yeah if your machine can be added to a botnet then it will be. Resistance is futile, we are Borg style.