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

medthehackernewsPublished 2026-08-20

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

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/rust-supply-chain-attack-puts-build.html