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gpmlast Friday at 8:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

Uh... did you install these AUR packages? It seems quite unlikely you installed these on either a router or a steam deck...

That said, if you did, yeah being hacked is scary and I feel for you.


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Shellbanlast Friday at 8:35 PM

As @lillylizard pointed out, it turns out that these are new packages, not comprised existing packages like I first thought. Still, the nature of the hack is a Remote Execution, as you pointed out elsewhere, meaning the hacker could pull my router password from the password manager, or grab my SSH keys and log into whatever machine is listed in the known_hosts, or just mess with my Ebay account and the credit card saved on there. The hacker could in theory do literally anything I could do.

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johnisgoodlast Friday at 8:32 PM

I wonder if he even has any unofficial packages installed.

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