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Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

📅 20 August 2026 at 20:22 UTC📰 The Hacker NewsView original source ↗
Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation. The affected releases are arrayref 0.3.10, internment 0.8.7, and append-only-vec 0.1.9, all published from the same owner

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