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Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
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What to do if I found a package I installed to be in that list? libgdata to be specific?
Edit: Seems that the libgdata package was last installed on March 05.
Have a check if you updated it recently (PKGBUILD history, about June 10-12). If not you're fine.
If:
(reference)
Personally I would reset everything if I got anything, to kill both any infection and my paranoia. Then reset credentials.
Was it installed from the aur? If not, you're fine
libgdata here is specifically very messy. It was an official package since it was a required dependency for older versions of GNOME, then in GNOME 50 they dropped the dependency and so did Arch from their repos. But because pacman doesn't remove dangling dependencies, you end up with libgdata still installed, until Arch Linux moves dropped packages into the AUR as an orphan, which happened in this case 5/31. This allowed it to be perfectly timed for the attackers to pick it up on 6/11. Now, you'd inadvertently update libgdata from an AUR source if you're using an AUR helper.
Yes that seems to be the case. But on 12th of June, I did a yay update. But only librewolf-bin was updated. libgdata (0.18.1-5) was last updated on March 05 2026 for me.
Also I did some digging around. Seems like any packages that were installed using a AUR helper (like yay in my case) would leave logs in the
/var/log/pacman. You can see them like this,grep "package_name" /var/log/pacmanFor yay installed packages you can see they are getting installed from
~/.config/yay/package_name. But for my libgdata, it simply says[ALPM] installed libgdata (0.18.1-5).Sounds like you got lucky. libgdata was part of the second round of attacks and was quickly reverted. It's likely you're running the last official release.
You can also check the build/install date of a package with pacman -Qi
Probably reinstall (all is supposed to be fixed as of over 12h ago). This time check the PKGBUILD and also whichever (git) repo the software is pulled from.
See if infected versions of npm packages atomic-lockfile and js-digest are installed.
See here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=313892