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Deps credential stealer in hijacked Arch AUR builds

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Atomic Arch is a malware activity that hijacked more than 400 Arch User Repository (AUR) packages on or after June 11 and rewrote their build scripts to run npm install atomic-lockfile during builds, delivering a Rust credential stealer through the AUR build path. The deps payload targets developer workstations and build systems, steals browser cookies, SSH keys, GitHub/npm tokens, and other secrets, exfiltrates data to temp.sh, and can add systemd persistence plus an optional eBPF rootkit when it has root. The official Arch repositories were not affected, and confirmed examples include alvr and premake-git.

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AUR package-hijacking campaign delivering atomic-lockfile

Campaign
H score11 First: 12.06.2026 20:03 Last: 12.06.2026 20:03 Sources 1

How related: Sonatype, which named the campaign Atomic Arch, found them going after orphaned projects: packages whose maintainers had walked away, leaving them open for anyone to adopt.

About this happening: AUR package-hijacking campaign is abusing more than 400 compromised Arch User Repository (AUR) packages to deliver atomic-lockfile, turning the AUR build path...

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Atomic-lockfile rootkit-infostealer distribution through AUR packages

Malware Activity
H score3 First: 12.06.2026 20:03 Last: 12.06.2026 20:03 Sources 1

How related: That package, [email protected], carries a preinstall hook that runs a bundled Linux ELF named deps. Build the package, and the binary runs.

About this happening: AUR packages are distributing the atomic-lockfile Linux rootkit and infostealer through compromised build scripts, with more than 400 packages reported and the o...

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Hades Bun-powered JavaScript stealer on PyPI

Malware Activity
H score34 First: 09.06.2026 12:13 Last: 09.06.2026 12:13 Sources 1

About this happening: A new Hades PyPI malware wave uses a Python startup hook to launch a Bun-powered JavaScript stealer, putting developer and CI/CD credentials at risk. The payload can h...

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IronWorm npm supply-chain infection and self-propagation

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H score15 First: 04.06.2026 18:25 Last: 04.06.2026 18:25 Sources 1

About this happening: IronWorm is a Rust infostealer in a npm supply-chain activity that hides behind an eBPF kernel rootkit, communicates over Tor, and targets 86 environment var...

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Miasma GitHub and npm supply-chain campaign

Campaign
H score26 First: 02.06.2026 00:38 Last: 02.06.2026 00:38 Sources 1

About this happening: Miasma is a supply-chain campaign that began in Red Hat's @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace and later expanded across npm, PyPI, the Go ecosystem, and Git...

Latest development: 05.06.2026 21:05

A new Miasma wave is linked to 57 compromised npm packages across more than 286 malicious versions, with malicious installs abusing a 157-byte binding.gyp file for code execution during npm install and then staging additional payloads that inject persistent backdoor files into project repositories and target AI-assisted IDE workflows.

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Timeline

  1. 12.06.2026 22:24 3 articles · 1mo ago

    Sonatype tracks Atomic Arch after more than 400 AUR packages are hijacked

    Initial Disclosure

    Sonatype names the campaign Atomic Arch, says more than 400 AUR packages were hijacked, notes that confirmed examples include alvr and premake-git, and states that the affected list remains incomplete with no CVE assigned and a CVSS 8.7 tracking label.

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