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archivesupply chain · 20 Aug 2026 · 20:22 UTC

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

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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. …

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