Yes, I've been discussing this today with some other security types.
While Ziff-Davis is reporting that the site was hacked into, the current evidence coming out of the investigation at tcpdump.org seems to be pointing to a member of the team that was recently asked to leave. In other words, it's an inside job.
From the Bible, "Thou seest the mote in thy brother's eye, but thou seest not the beam in thine own eye."
While this is a problem for users of libpcap and tcpdump, the trojan that is in the infected software doesn't spread itself. Unlike Microsoft which "accidentally sent the virulent Nimda worm to South Korean developers when it distributed Korean-language versions of Visual Studio .Net..."
Whoopsie. Perhaps NBMers might want to examine Microsoft's own history before gloating over problems with Linux.
This incident only reinforces what I've been saying. No OS is perfect. Linux has problems. Microsoft has more, more often and more serious problems. Linux problems are often fixed in hours. Microsoft problems take weeks, if ever. Linux problems are localized. Microsoft problems spread like wildfire. Linux problems generally only infect users that have chosen to use certain pieces of software, Microsoft problems generally infect everyone using a certain version of Windows.
So you probably shouldn't gloat too much. Microsoft still is the world leader in security problems.