Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation. The affected releases are...

MAL-2026-2957 Malicious code in cycode-dev (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 af035661f0964977015279eeceb2e380bf8b525463d4a099d85eab7b4ea8a71b Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose. --- Category: PROBABLYPENTES...

MAL-2025-191895 Malicious code in testpurpleteaming (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 e4cc49d59c07354a2817163d4e569b1f6d2e6cf17c5c7fb0135bc5feebdfea4e Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose. --- Category: PROBABLYPENTES...

RUSTSEC-2023-0097 `lazystatic` was removed from crates.io for malicious code

This crate was part of a typosquatting malware cluster published by the malicious user amaperf and contained a malware payload in build.rs to exfiltrate host information to the attacker. This advisory is to retrospectively document this attempted attack. The version information and download recor...

Malicious Package

Overview acmesmithverisign is a malicious package. Affected versions of this package were found to be a Malicious Package, as it utilised typosquatting to run Malicious 3rd party scripts. It replaced genuine packages using an and replaced it with - and vice versa Remediation Avoid using...