--- title: OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push... description: The OpenMandriva Linux distribution experienced a sabotage attempt by a former contributor who abused administrative privileges after being removed from the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openmandriva-github-disrupted-nefarious-package-push-in-sabotage-attempt-evsbeeb4i twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt | daily.dev og:description: The OpenMandriva Linux distribution experienced a sabotage attempt by a former contributor who abused administrative privileges after being removed from the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openmandriva-github-disrupted-nefarious-package-push-in-sabotage-attempt-evsbeeb4i og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/eVSBeeB4i.png og:image:alt: OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The OpenMandriva Linux distribution experienced a sabotage attempt by a former contributor who abused administrative privileges after being removed from the project's Matrix chat for abusive behavior. The attacker deleted part of the project's GitHub repository and pushed an empty/nefarious package that could have caused issues for users running GNOME or COSMIC packages. Developers are working to restore deleted repositories and address the malicious package situation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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