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Hackers poison arrayref Rust crate to push infostealer malware

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1 SIGNALFIRST DETECTED 20 August 2026
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20 Aug
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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

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Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload

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