jDownloader's homepage got compromised

General system Applications
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and served a malicious installer. See e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/jdownloader/comments/1t6goqe/is_the_website_hacked/okhg2ur/

From what I can read flatpak and the updater was fine, but they mention Linux for the shell installer script. Personally I use flatpak, so I didn’t dig any deeper for whatever the AUR package actually does.

Don’t want to spread panic, but it is a popular AUR package, so just as a heads-up if you installed it in the recent days.

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wait.. it is been flagged as unsafe for a very long time right? there are tons of article about this on the internet

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If someone thinks the product is unsafe to use by design, well everybody can come up with their own conclusion - fair game. This is about an intrusion by an unknown 3rd party.