Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads
- Posted on August 20, 2026
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Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads
Rust deletes malicious releases of three crates after a proc-macro1 build script downloaded and ran a remote payload during compilation.
