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#8 SecurityWeek general August 21, 2026 at 09:23 UTC

Rust Supply Chain Attack Linked to North Korean Hackers

By Ionut Arghire

AI Summary

North Korean threat actors conducted a Rust supply chain attack by compromising the maintainer account of the widely-used 'arrayref' crate and pushing a poisoned version that added a malicious dependency fetching a remote payload during compilation. Developers who built projects using the compromised arrayref version had malware executed on their systems at compile time.

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