In yet another sign that developers continue to be targets of software supply chain attacks, a number of malicious packages have been discovered on the Rust programming language’s crate registry.
The libraries, uploaded between August 14 and 16, 2023, were published by a user named “amaperf,” Phylum said in a report published last week. The names of the packages, now taken down, are as follows:
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