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Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload
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20 Aug
Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload
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20 Aug
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
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20 Aug
Hackers poison arrayref Rust crate to push infostealer malware
Hackers compromised the maintainer account behind the widely used Rust crate arrayref to introduce malware that executed on developers' systems during compilation. [...]
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