Malware found disguised as 3rd party Plasma Extension: Neonova wallpaper

It has been brought to the attention of the KDE security team that NeoNova Animated Wallpaper (https://github.com/abbygraceton1992/NeoNova-KDE-Wallpaper) is shipping malware. This report came from Serg Star who spotted it reviewing this code. It's great that we have people spotting this stuff, though it may be too late for some. The Malware The package looks very legit, its an animating wallpaper that works as advertised, they even did later commits on top adding configuration options! However since the initial commit the…

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