{
  "id": 2231582,
  "title": "Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/rust-supply-chain-attack-puts-build-time-malware-in-crates-with-245",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-20T20:22:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/rust-supply-chain-attack-puts-build.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}