Thanks Saren and goeb for the heads up!

Both packages have been reverted to the last known good version.
The account who pushed the malicious uploads has been suspended and removed from the list of PKGBUILD co-maintainers.

Regards
Claudia


On 23.08.26 11:15 PM, goeb wrote:
On 2026-08-23 22:40, Saren wrote:
It downloads a lil executable called "systemmanager" from tor. I did not
need to analyze the binary or script to know this is malicious.

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/.xsnow.install?h=xsnow

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/.xsnow-bin.install? h=xsnow-bin

This install script also tries to spread to other AUR repos if run by a
maintainer. Might be a good idea to check for any .<package>.install files
across the AUR.

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