#rust

A crate in three quarters of Rust builds was poisoned and pulled in 86 minutes — compiling was enough to run it

arrayref has over 245 million downloads. On 20 August a malicious 0.3.7 appeared on crates.io with a dependency impersonating proc-macro2, whose build script fetched a second stage over TLS with certificate validation switched off. Wiz attributes it to a North Korean actor on infrastructure overlaps with two earlier campaigns.