{"id":241982,"date":"2026-08-01T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/arch-linux-disables-aur-package-adoption-to-stop-malware-flood"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:18:05","slug":"arch-linux-disables-aur-package-adoption-to-stop-malware-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/arch-linux-disables-aur-package-adoption-to-stop-malware-flood","title":{"rendered":"Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/arch-linux-disables-aur-package-adoption-to-stop-malware-flood.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages after a surge in malicious takeovers of existing packages.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was announced on the distribution\u2019s mailing list by contributor Robin Candau, who said that the situation is temporary until a solution is found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the current influx of malicious package adoptions and follow-up commits made via the AUR, package adoption is currently disabled while we are handling the situation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.archlinux.org\/archives\/list\/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org\/thread\/DRDEU3JUSC72CB265XHXPFA3DFSLXPBP\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced Candau<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages after a surge in malicious takeovers of existing packages. The decision was announced on the distribution\u2019s mailing list by contributor Robin Candau, who said that the situation is temporary until a solution is found. \u201cDue to the current influx of malicious [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}