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

[SOURCE] The Hacker News [DATE: 20/08/2026 20:22] [LANGUAGE: EN]
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 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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