Arch has evidently stopped new AUR registrations for the time being while maintainers scrub malware and users debate how to harden the popular community repository.
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Just hours after Arch sounded the all‑clear on a massive AUR malware purge, a new, stealthier campaign is slipping malicious code back into user packages.
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