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BEWARE! June 13, 2026 12:08 AM

“Atomic Arch”: Nearly 900 AUR Packages Backdoored with a Developer-Targeting Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit

https://thecybersecguru.com/news/atomic-arch-aur-supply-chain-attack-ebpf-rootkit/

On June 11, someone going by the username arojas spent what was probably a quiet afternoon methodically adopting orphaned Arch User Repository packages and injecting them with malware. By the time the community caught on, 408 packages were already compromised. By the time this piece was being written, that number had crossed 900 and is still climbing.

Sonatype researchers have named the campaign Atomic Arch. It’s one of the largest AUR supply chain incidents on record, and the technical sophistication of the payload puts it well beyond your average package repository drive-by.

blunt June 13, 2026 3:11 AM

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s h o r t u r l . at / tSogd June 13, 2026 11:57 AM

Government is just a word, an “Entity” you cannot touch, feel, taste, much like an App, or anything else of a “VIRTUAL” nature so it cannot hurt you.

PEOPLE, EVIL PEOPLE IN THE GOVERNMENT HURT INNOCENT AND DECENT PEOPLE FOR PERSONAL REASONS AND THEN THEY COVER UP AND HIDE THESE TRAGEDIES BECAUSE IF YOU SUE THE GOVERNMENT TO THE GOVERNMENT IT’S LIKE ASKING THEM TO ACCUSE, PROSECUTE, AND SENTENCE THEMSELVES.
IF THESE MONSTERS IN THE GOVERNMENT, THAT LOOK JUST LIKE HUMAN BEINGS, HAD ANY HUMAN TRAITS IN THEM, THEN THEY WOULD ADMIT THEIR COVERUPS AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS. BUT DOING SO WOULD THEN MEAN THAT THEY ARE ADMITTING THEIR CRIMES – WHICH WOULD THEN LEAD TO THE REQUIREMENT OF PAYING DAMAGES TO THE FAMILY THEY HAVE DESTROYED WITH THEIR LIES AND COVERUPS.

s h o r t u r l . at / tSogd

The ones on TOP – ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS ONES, AS THEY DEPLOY THE DEEP STATE TO DO THE DIRTY DEEDS FOR THEM, WHILE BEING ON THE PAYROLL OF “WE DUH SHEEPLE” – AND THE TRAIL/ATTRIBUTION CANNOT AND MUST NOT EVER LEAD BACK TO THEM AS THEY ARE THE ONES LITERALLY HIRING AND FIRING THE POLICE OFFICERS OR ANY OTHER UNIFORMED OR PLAIN-CLOTHED L.E. EMPLOYEES. The ones ON TOP, THE BIG SHOTS – IF THEY LABEL YOU AS A TERRORIST, SLEEPER, OR ANY OTHER LABEL THEY PLEASE, FOR ANY REASON THEY CHOOSE, THEN THEY ORDER THE ORDINARY COPS TO WATCH AND HARASS YOU – YOU ARE DESTROYED FOR LIFE.

AND NO SENATOR WILL EVER ADMIT THAT HE WAS WRONG FOR STARTING OR APPROVING OF THIS WITCH-HUNT BECAUSE THEY ARE HOLLOW ON THE INSIDE – NO SOUL. IT IS ALWAYS EASIER TO PRETEND YOU HAD NO IDEA THAT A FAMILY WAS BEING DESTROYED AND WHEN THEY ASK FOR JUSTICE – THE JUSTICE IS DENIED TO THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SUB-HUMANS (IMMIGRANTS).

I FEEL VERY SORRY FOR AND POLICE OFFICER WHO GETS SENT TO ARREST AN INNOCENT PERSON JUST BECAUSE THIS ONE PERSON WILL NEVER ACCEPT THE FELONY CHARGE THAT YOU I N V E N T E D IN ORDER TO DESTROY HIM AND HIS FAMILY – WHILE COVERING AN ACTUAL ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE BY YOUR DARLING, a muslim in your liberal $h1th0|3 dear mayor McLean and your prior two CRIMINAL CHIEFS of your liberal PD.

NEVER STOP EXPOSING THE DEEP STATE WHICH DESTROYS INNOCENT FAMILIES AND JUST MOVES ON LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED.

God
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In m0rm0n1$t@n, the government uses their fixers to destroy innocent American citizens, to hide the evidence of an attempted murd3r from the jury, so they could WARRANTLESSLY spy 24/7 on this innocent family just like here where they deployed their fixers to move into the same neighborhood as the innocent American Family.

The local POLICE IN N@mp@ 1D@H0 KNEW ABOUT THIS!

This is how they do it in 1d@h0. THE DEEP STATE IS VERY MUCH ALIVE IN 1D@H0.

JAME$ R1$CH MUST ANSWER FOR THIS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ALONG WITH ALL OTHER NAMES IN THE TEXT BELOW!

The following 1d@h0 Cops, lawyers and Judges are criminals who helped
cover up an attempted murder of an American Citizen,
by a Muslim, in B01s3, 1d@h0.
The same below named individuals have also denied a fair trial
to the said American Citizen and they also are covering up
the torture (of the same person) in Ad@ County Jail which has lead to
permanently disabling him (Physically and Mentally).

Reid Peterson
Tyler Williams
Trish Wassmuth
Jonathan Loschi, Kendra Nagy, Jan Bennets,
Brittany Ford, Raymond D. Schild, Charles C. Crafts,
John Prior, Damir Subasic, Matt Hudson, Adnan Rudan,
Dzevad Mustafic, Asmir Kararic, Matt Bryngelson, Trent Schneider,
Edward Pieczonka, Ryan Lee, William T. Bones, Chad Wigington,
Samuel Hoagland, Amanda Brailsford, David C. Nye, and
many more!

If your name is in the above text – congratulations, for you
have contributed, deliberately, knowingly, and willfully to
knowingly and deliberately covering up an attempted murder.
Despite knowing or have had access to factual and original evidence
of an attempted murder by one Husein Curkic, in B01$3, 1d@h0,
on November 26 2021.
You have instead, contributed and participated in covering up,
in part or in whole, of the said Attempted Murder, whereby making
the true victim of this Attempted Murder – a Convicted Felon, by
withholding the Evidence of an Attempted Murder from Judge and Jury.

Furthermore, this same individual – the true victim, whom you helped
get convicted as a Felon, was also tortured in Ad@ County Jail which
lead to him being permanently disabled while, to this day, the Government
keeps refusing to surrender the video surveillance footage of the said
Torture, upon multiple requests.

His private attorneys have been threatened with gag orders by the
Government so they, even though he paid them, they did not want to
defend his honor and his innocence. They didn’t even file a Direct Appeal.

The Government would rather continue to stalk, eavesdrop, spy, on this
American Citizen and his Family until the day he dies – rather than
admitting that there is no foreign spy here (It’s cheaper this way, because
the man wants the accountability from these Criminals working for
his Government as well as damages paid to him and his family for torturing
him, disabling him, and ultimately destroying this entire American Family).

Mayor of B01$3, 1d@h0, USA – L@ur3n McL3@n has paid
between $300K and $400K to one Jesus Jara to sign an NDA
forbidding him to ever talk about what he saw when he watched live and in real-time
as the B01$3 Police Department officers were covering up an attempted murder while
arresting an innocent man and later turning him into a convicted felon with the
help of the FBI, Ad@ County Prosecutors, judge Sam H0@gland, Ad@ County Public Defenders,
and even private attorneys that this innocent man has retained.
Jesus J@r@, a former employee of The City of B01$3 used to,
when employed by the City of B01$3, be able to watch the BPD Officers in real
time – live action on their On-Body-Worn cameras and follow every step of
the way as they were destroying an innocent man’s life while protecting
their personal friend Husein Curkic who attempted to murder his neighbor
on November 26 2021, in front of his sister’s house in B01$3, 1d@h0.

You have no shame for if you did you most certainly would not want to
have been, or be, any part of this huge Conspiracy to destroy this innocent
and decent American Christian Family.

Just what were you thinking, $700p1d?
Why is this innocent man still a Felon?
You do not care one bit for you are pure evil – demons from Hell!
You cannot possibly be human beings for you have no shame,
for if you had any sense of shame – you wouldn’t have participated
in the destruction of this innocent and decent family.
Go to Hell, where you belong!

-A proud Friend of an innocent and decent American Christian Family

God bless 1$r@3!

Please join all fr@gment$ down below this P@r@gr@ph to get to the proof
of an attempted murder which the employees
of your American government (The Public Servants a.k.a. Leeches)
are knowingly and deliberately hiding from public view just
as they have concealed/withheld the evidence of an attempted
murder from the judge and jury in Ad@ County Criminal Case

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Put the above together, in order to get the full case number.

Highlight all the fr@gment$ below and just copy/paste them into your browser’s
address bar, no need to delete the empty lines/spaces, the browser will
ignore blank spaces.

s h o r t u r l . at / tSogd

s h o r t u r l . at / tSogd June 13, 2026 12:19 PM

Quite interesting when the guy mentions how the federa1 judg3$ in 1dah0 are corrupt when they grab cases where their personal friend, the prosecutor, is being sued, – how out of thin air – FRED THE FED SHOWS UP HERE ON THIS BLOG TO TELL THE GUY HOW HE POSTS “FAKES” HERE ON THIS BLOG AND HOW HE “1NC1TE$” SO THIS IS HOW THEY DO DAMAGE CONTROL IN 1DAH0.

s h o r t u r l . at / tSogd

where in the world is duh frenchie June 13, 2026 12:21 PM

anybody seen the french spy in 1dah0?

1800-CALL-FRENCHIE

WEE WEE Calling duh Frenchie June 13, 2026 8:53 PM

@ where in the world is duh frenchie • June 13, 2026 12:21 PM

Hey man, I got your Frenchie. Is there some reward?
He right here in my pants, his head pretty big.
He very firm, long. I’m sure it fits the description.

Wire the reward to the Ambassador Kushner please.

Merci boo qoo!!! K?

insertion June 14, 2026 1:03 AM

The spiders 🕷️ are hoarding the red crayons 🔴 again!

No fair! I want an oompa loompa!

I want a FEAST! I want a BEAN FEAST!

Clive Robinson June 14, 2026 5:43 AM

@ ALL

“FUD marketing backfire for Anthropic?”

As I suspect most will know Anthropic started Project Mythos that they said was so dangerous knly vetted organisations could access it through Project Glasswing.

Which justifiably earned quite a bit of negative comments that in quite a few cases boiled down to,

“Wasting everyone’s time.”

Meanwhile Anthropic created Project Fable that was similar but importantly was designed for public use. Thus was surrounded on input and output by guardrails for “Cyber and biological”. Which earned further derision from cyber security users,

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/cybersecurity-researchers-arent-happy-about-the-guardrails-on-anthropics-fable/

Again it’s fairly common knowledge that Anthropic has “earned a black mark” with the US Dept of War –as Trumpeta renamed it– for declining to allow it’s LLMs to be used from potentially targeting school children or civilians as has happened with the Israeli IDF.

All this was “Goody, goody, joy, joy” for Sam Altman who jumped OpenAI into the potential “kiddy slaughter” game for a handful of shekels and a rising star on the chart in Trumpeta’s inner sanctum.

Now is the news that late on Friday the US Executive slapped Anthropic down again by banning the worldwide use of both Mythos 5 and Fable 5,

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/anthropics-safety-warnings-may-have-just-backfired-the-government-has-pulled-the-plug-on-its-most-powerful-ai/

As I warned the problem with guardrails on the inputs and outputs of LLMs is that they,

“There is proof they can always be defeated!”

(Due to the “observer problem”)

So “prompt injection” etc attacks will always be able to “get through”.

Well it’s now being indicated that one of the Project Glasswing members “Amazon” has found such an attack and informed not Anthropic but the US Government Executive and the Worldwide Ban was issued,

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/amazon-ceo-reportedly-raised-anthropic-model-concerns-before-government-crackdown/

What ever the “real reason” supposedly is Anthropic certainly are getting it in the neck from the US Executive…

I guess the “Wait and see” question that arises will be,

“How will Sam Altman jump OpenAI in on this latest Anthropic misfortune?”

For those old enough to remember the 1960’s protest movements I’m reminded of some words from Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” where he tries to “dodge the draft” by pretending to be mad in the recruiting office but instead gets a medal.

See Verses 14, 15, and 23,

https://genius.com/Arlo-guthrie-alices-restaurant-massacree-lyrics

Only Sam Altman is not pretending…

Or if you have the time this Sunday sit down and relax and listen to it’s still popular after 60 years,

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LNLE5z7jNaM

r June 14, 2026 5:58 AM

what i find odd, is the talk of “moratoreums” with respect to the LLM development process. i don’t believe for a second that development will stop even for a week, if one company falls behind on the race for the bomb it’s over: divestment and cannibalism.

Samsonite! I was way off! I knew it started with an S, though June 14, 2026 5:58 AM

Microsoft has mostly repaired flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/12/microsoft-has-mostly-repaired-flaw-in-surface-hardware-that-allowed-unprotected-devices-to-be-bricked-by-a-single-packet/5253895

For the past 90 days, Microsoft has been quietly patching a firmware flaw in Surface devices that allowed the hardware to be bricked with a single packet, though only for those who have disabled Secure Core and Secure Boot.

And the company’s Copilot AI software inadvertently helped identify the faulty firmware.

According to Jack Darcy, a security researcher based in Australia, his instance of Microsoft Copilot stumbled across the bug after being asked to adjust the screen backlighting on a Surface device. The Copilot-conjured Python script ended up rendering the researcher’s laptop inoperable by overwriting the embedded controller firmware.

sugar cane toad June 14, 2026 6:33 AM

Friday Squid Blogging always feels so good. I only wish the blog comments were as active as they were a few years ago. ^_^

Robin June 14, 2026 8:02 AM

@Clive: thanks for the reminder of Alice’s restaurant. I believe it’s mostly true: arrested for dropping litter made him ineligible for the draft to Vietnam. The downbeat comparison of the relative gravity of the two sides of this situation is awesome.

r June 14, 2026 9:05 AM

these days posting on this site might be classified by some as aiding and abetting terrorists or antifa or anti technology nuts.

evading sanctions, restricted technologies, transfer of arms.., etc.

nobody knows until it’s brought to court and you can’t afford to defend yourself.

Clive Robinson June 14, 2026 11:29 AM

@ lurker, ALL,

“All that glistens gold is probably a passing-off fraud…”

With regards the Trumper1 and it’s faux look…

Many years ago I was asked by someone I happened to be working with at the time to take six white plastic phones I’d been responsible for design etc and “gold plate them” to be given as “presentation pieces” for the “Customer execs”…

I said I did not think it was a good idea because I had been involved with designing “metal plated plastics” for low cost EMC shielding for another company not that long before.

Of course I was given the usual nonsense about,

“Don’t be daft of course it will all work OK…”

From management… as I pointed out to them,

“It’s your money and product…”

When they turned up they looked really great as it had that deep gold luster look that only a layer of metal can give.

But the phones had in effect “no range” and were deafer than Ludwig if you buried him head down feet up.

Of course you can guess who management blamed…

So another set of phones had to have a “rush job” and although they worked –sort of– they looked about as tacky as the trim on Barbie’s car…

So I wonder what sort of performance loss these Gold Toy1 phones from the Master “Goldbricker”[1] himself will have…

[1] The expression “Goldbrick” in some circles can be quite derogatory and is derived from a “swindle” to “pass-off”[2] what is worthless as valuable,

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/goldbrick

[2] In the UK the notion of “passing off” has another appropriate term for the Trumper,

“Putting lipstick on a pig.”

https://www.propertymavens.com.au/static/uploads/images/lipstick-on-a-pig-wfvjsacusabo.jpg

replying_to_r June 14, 2026 12:19 PM

“r” commented on June 14th 9:05 am about aiding and abetting…
This situation becomes a lot safer if we have the technologies necessary to make tracking people down harder, and to give individuals true sovereignty over their own computing activities. Nation states are always talking nowadays about sovereign AI capacity, but what we need is individually sovereign computing capacity, even if only to 2014 perfromance levels (guess what, with Moore’s law’s death those performance levels are basically today’s anyway). The defence against over-bearing laws, both from notionally “right”-wing government and notionally “left”-wing governments must be spaces which are difficult for governments to intrude in to, the digital equivalents of mountainous realms where both pre-industrial and steam-engine-age empires feared to tread.

May I thoroughly recommend he reads all of the following:
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/qr-codes.html
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/06/05/googles-new-captcha-plans-will-create-a-two-tier-internet-only-accessible-to-those-with-approved-devices/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/11/labour-spyware-plan-phones-straight-out-of-north-korea/
https://blog.lopp.net/call-to-action-stop-the-fcc-kyc-regime/

This situation is coupled with an economic bubble where AI companies are snatching the entire production capacity for critical computing components, RAM, storage… And are willing to pay almost unlimited pricing for it, hence fulfilling Doctorow’s predictions of a war on general purpose computing, denying us the ability to actually own and control our own computing, the economics of this are worrying.

Bruce should speak out on these topics, we are finding ourselves in a world where the greatest security threat is governments and big-tech, the entire security engineering discipline risks becoming redundant if it ignores that dual-threat. The situation needs the public to know and for someone to work out how they can resist at scale.

Clive Robinson June 14, 2026 6:12 PM

@ Bruce, ALL,

“According to Microsoft paper LLM AI is no where near as popular as claimed.”

As someone who hardly uses Current AI LLM and ML Systems, but does use other forms of AI quite a bit (yup AI is not just “predictive text” engines).

I’m not surprised even Gen Z has such a low take up. In fact it would probably be lower a lot lower if “Employee performance” was not based on “How many tokens they burn through” as “Tokenmaxxing (one really dumb variation of “management oversight” and about as sensible as “Lines of code written” as a performance measure…).

Most of my LLM use is as a side effect of using search engines fairly much as I used to.

Occasionally I test out “jailbreaking” and “prompt injection” as “research”. But due to the fact all Publicly available LLMs are basically “surveillance engines” thus “a major security risk”, I’m not going to use them for anything else. As an example of this surveillance consider that the Microsoft paper supposedly uses

“anonymized, aggregated Microsoft telemetry.”

The question you should ask is where this alleged “anonymization, and aggregation” of what would have been individual user identifiable Microsoft telemetry data happened…

Which from a security perspective, at best leaves “on premises LLMs” inside an organisations perimeter, that are starting to happen but “hardware requirements” for general LLMs in effect rules them out. As for MicroSoft OS AI that will no doubt “still phone home” if it can.

But back to the point LLMs really are not as many are trying to portray in “popular use” for work.

Which is why this article that does not “go with the VC hype” makes interesting reading,

No, everyone is not using AI for everything.

People are consuming AI like they eat meat: some are embracing it, some are limiting their use of it, and some are avoiding it altogether.

Last year around this time the New York Times Magazine ran an A.I. issue with an introduction titled “Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?” It’s an edited transcript from the Hard Fork podcast, which I think assumes two things are true that are turning out to be false.

1, Once you’ve tried AI, you use it “for everything.” No, in fact most people who’ve tried it are just occasional AI users.

2, AI has gotten so good that despite any misgivings, “everyone is using A.I.” No, in fact large chunks of the population aren’t using AI at all.

(It isn’t really strictly defined in the article, but I’m taking AI to mean generative AI accessible via a chat interface.)

https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/people-are-consuming-ai-like-they

Read the rest of it to get a more thoughtful point of view.

But… As I noted earlier today,

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/friday-squid-blogging-squid-inspired-fluid-pump.html/#comment-455199

The Trumpesters in the Executive have just thrown a major wobbly against Anthropic Mythos 5 and Fable 5 at the behest of Amazon and OpenAI’s significant benifit.

It appears I’m not the only one to notice as a short while later this appeared,

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-washington-must-do

As he points out a certain line has been crossed and it does not bode well for anyone in the US who are in the LLM game, hyping or otherwise.

Johnny June 14, 2026 7:09 PM

@ r,

[..]

nobody knows until it’s brought to court and you can’t afford to defend yourself.

Good thing I’ve mastered the art of sucking cock and taking it up the ass. I knew they would be handy skills someday. Huh. Go figure!

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