Five Malicious Rust Crates and AI Bot Exploit CI/CD Pipelines to Steal Developer Secrets

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five malicious Rust crates that masquerade as time-related utilities to transmit .env file data to the threat actors. The Rust packages, published to crates.io, are listed below - chronoanchor dnp3times timecalibrator timecalibrators time-sync The crates,...

`chrono_anchor` was removed from crates.io due to malicious code

The chronoanchor crate attempted to exfiltrate .env files to a server that was in turn impersonating the legitimate timeapi.io service. The malicious crate had 1 version published on 2026-03-04 approximately 6 days before removal and had no evidence of actual downloads. There were no crates...

`time-sync` was removed from crates.io due to malicious code

The time-sync crate attempted to exfiltrate .env files to a server that was in turn impersonating the legitimate timeapi.io service. This the same attack that we've seen three times in the last few days. The malicious crate had 1 version published on 2026-03-04 approximately 50 minutes before...

GHSA-XHW7-JHMP-J62J `dnp3times` was removed from crates.io due to malicious code

The dnp3times crate attempted to exfiltrate .env files to a server that was in turn impersonating the legitimate timeapi.io service. It was loosely trying to typosquat the dnp3time crate, but otherwise was the same attack as the recent timecalibrator and timecalibrators malware. The malicious cra...

`dnp3times` was removed from crates.io due to malicious code

The dnp3times crate attempted to exfiltrate .env files to a server that was in turn impersonating the legitimate timeapi.io service. It was loosely trying to typosquat the dnp3time crate, but otherwise was the same attack as the recent timecalibrator and timecalibrators malware. The malicious cra...

`time_calibrators` was removed from crates.io due to malicious code

The timecalibrators crate attempted to exfiltrate .env files to a server that was in turn impersonating the legitimate timeapi.io service. The malicious crate had 1 version published on 2026-03-03 approximately 3 hours before removal and had no evidence of actual downloads. There were no crates...

RUSTSEC-2026-0032 `dnp3times` was removed from crates.io due to malicious code

The dnp3times crate attempted to exfiltrate .env files to a server that was in turn impersonating the legitimate timeapi.io service. It was loosely trying to typosquat the dnp3time crate, but otherwise was the same attack as the timecalibrator and timecalibrators malware yesterday. The malicious...

`dnp3times` was removed from crates.io due to malicious code

The dnp3times crate attempted to exfiltrate .env files to a server that was in turn impersonating the legitimate timeapi.io service. It was loosely trying to typosquat the dnp3time crate, but otherwise was the same attack as the timecalibrator and timecalibrators malware yesterday. The malicious...

`time-sync` was removed from crates.io due to malicious code

The time-sync crate attempted to exfiltrate .env files to a server that was in turn impersonating the legitimate timeapi.io service. This the same attack that we've seen three times in the last few days. The malicious crate had 1 version published on 2026-03-04 approximately 50 minutes before...

RUSTSEC-2026-0031 `time_calibrators` was removed from crates.io due to malicious code

The timecalibrators crate attempted to exfiltrate .env files to a server that was in turn impersonating the legitimate timeapi.io service. The malicious crate had 1 version published on 2026-03-03 approximately 3 hours before removal and had no evidence of actual downloads. There were no crates...