{"id":242982,"date":"2026-08-21T01:23:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/hackers-poison-arrayref-rust-crate-to-push-infostealer-malware"},"modified":"2026-08-21T01:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:23:49","slug":"hackers-poison-arrayref-rust-crate-to-push-infostealer-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/hackers-poison-arrayref-rust-crate-to-push-infostealer-malware","title":{"rendered":"Hackers poison arrayref Rust crate to push infostealer malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-poison-arrayref-rust-crate-to-push-infostealer-malware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hackers compromised the maintainer account behind the widely used Rust crate arrayref to introduce malware that executed on developers\u2019 systems during compilation.<\/p>\n<p>Within a 23-minute window, the attacker also poisoned two other crates, append-only-vec and internment, in the same supply-chain attack.<\/p>\n<p>The arrayref crate is a popular Rust library with more than 53 million downloads over the past 90 days that is used by cryptography, graphics, and blockchain tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers compromised the maintainer account behind the widely used Rust crate arrayref to introduce malware that executed on developers\u2019 systems during compilation. Within a 23-minute window, the attacker also poisoned two other crates, append-only-vec and internment, in the same supply-chain attack. The arrayref crate is a popular Rust library with more than 53 million downloads [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,34,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}