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

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1 SIGNALFIRST DETECTED 20 August 2026
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20 Aug
Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload

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Mini Shai-Hulud Pushes Malicious AntV npm Packages via Compromised Maintainer Account

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh software supply chain attack campaign that has compromised various npm packages associated with the @antv ecosystem as part of

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24 Apr
The Bitwarden CLI Just Got Backdoored. Here's What the Supply Chain Attack Actually Did.

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