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Yes, it's rare. could you name other incidents where this happens? I feel like this is always brought up in these discussions, but it really only is an outlier. There'S not much to conclude from this.

Feels a bit like an exception proving the rule. If everyone is pointing to the same individual example that a rule doesn't hold, the rule probably holds for almost all cases.

Here is another example of malicious software from official binaries.

https://torrentfreak.com/flight-sim-company-embeds-malware-t...

That incident is 15 years old. I think it's about time we stopped wheeling it out as an exhibit whenever this topic is mentioned. Executable code viruses are not such a big deal these days, when everything is based around web technologies anyway.