CachyOS' AUR Problem

A couple of months ago I wrote about how I was considering moving from Bazzite to Cachy OS. I had yet to make the move in large part because Bazzite on my decade old Dell XPS 15 was working very well and was doing what I needed it to do. It's great as a companion machine for marking student work and general admin when I'm not on my work provided laptop (unmanaged thankfully). I don't like using my main personal laptop for accessing student work. Partly because of data protection aspects, but mostly for the security of my own machine. I've had one virus scare, I don't want another. I also have my old Surface Go Laptop which is running Zorin OS (18) which runs very well on it, especially for casual browsing and watching media. The screen is too small to do much else. So, I'm pretty happy with my Linux usage at the moment. Even if the tinkering side of me does like the idea of Cachy. But, Yesterday I started seeing panicked posts on Reddit about a serious malware breach to the AUR which…