{"id":283716,"date":"2026-06-29T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/linux-isnt-immune-to-malware-the-aur-just-proved-it\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:35:06","slug":"linux-isnt-immune-to-malware-the-aur-just-proved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/linux-isnt-immune-to-malware-the-aur-just-proved-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux isn&#8217;t immune to malware \u2014 the AUR just proved it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-isnt-immune-to-malware-the-aur-just-proved-it\/\">Linux isn&#8217;t immune to malware \u2014 the AUR just proved it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-isnt-immune-to-malware-the-aur-just-proved-it\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-isnt-immune-to-malware-the-aur-just-proved-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-29 14:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the more common myths floating around is that Linux is somehow more secure than Windows or macOS, which is simply not true. The truth is, Linux has had a ton of vulnerabilities and exploits; it\u2019s just that these get patched out quickly in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there is a non-zero chance that you might end up grabbing some malware from the internet, and this is the exact conundrum a lot of Arch Linux users faced last week, with a sizable number of AUR packages being infected.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t5 Windows myths Linux users love to lecture you about<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Linux users love dunking on Windows, but they&#8217;re not always right.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"a-massive-number-of-aur-packages-recently-ended-up-being-compromised\">\n                        A massive number of AUR packages recently ended up being compromised<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"over-1500-packages\">\n            Over 1500 packages<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                                                                                     &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-isnt-immune-to-malware-the-aur-just-proved-it\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux isn&#8217;t immune to malware \u2014 the AUR just proved it https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-isnt-immune-to-malware-the-aur-just-proved-it\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-29&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/06\/kde-theming-arch.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71,32],"class_list":["post-283716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-linux","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283718,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283716\/revisions\/283718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}