Cyber Intelligence

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

Medium Severity Global
Date Occurred Aug 20, 2026 20:22 UTC
Event Type Cyber Intelligence
Source TheHackerNews
Recorded Aug 20, 2026
Full Description

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 bui

Original Source
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/rust-supply-chain-attack-puts-build.html
Event Metadata
  • ID #25342
  • Type Cyber Intelligence
  • Region Global
  • Severity Medium
  • Indexed Aug 20, 2026
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