[$] AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks

The Arch User Repository (AUR) has been subjected to a sustained attack recently. The attacker, or attackers, have spun up a series of new accounts then used them to adopt orphaned packages and push malicious updates that would install malware on users' systems. It is unclear how many users were compromised in the attack, but the maintainers were playing Whac-A-Mole for several days to respond to each newly compromised package. The project hasturned off the AUR's new-user registration, for now, but it is unclear what its long-term response will be or if the AUR can be secured without major changes to its existing collaboration model.