This message has been posted in Archlinux security list:
On the 16th of July, at around 8pm UTC+2, a malicious AUR package was
uploaded to the AUR. Two other malicious packages were uploaded by the
same user a few hours later. These packages were installing a script
coming from the same GitHub repository that was identified as a Remote
Access Trojan (RAT).
The affected malicious packages are:
librewolf-fix-bin
firefox-patch-bin
zen-browser-patched-bin
The Arch Linux team addressed the issue as soon as they became aware of
the situation. As of today, 18th of July, at around 6pm UTC+2, the
offending packages have been deleted from the AUR.
We strongly encourage users that may have installed one of these
packages to remove them from their system and to take the necessary
measures in order to ensure they were not compromised.
Note to the forum editors: I chose this category instead of the members category so the information can reach more people. Feel free to move it to a more suitable place if necessary.
Ayuh. I was the first to submit deletion requests for a couple of those packages. Folks never seem to search first as there’s now several duplicate deletion requests.
Apparently, these were fishing for people with screen-tearing or whatever… hikek58184 commented on 2025-07-16 20:25 (UTC) nice, this fixed my rendering issues
Update: The AUR packages are now all deleted and the user is permanently suspended. It appears the related GitHub and Reddit accounts are now deleted as well.
