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

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

The Hacker News · Aug 21, 2026

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Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads
Security August 21, 2026

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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