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Backdoored Rust packages hit crates.io, exposing developers to malware at build time

Malicious versions of three Rust packages, including the widely used arrayref, were published to the crates.io registry on August 20, car…

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Malicious versions of three Rust packages, including the widely used arrayref, were published to the crates.io registry on August 20, carrying a backdoor that executed automatically when affected projects were compiled.

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