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DevOps · wiz.io · Saturday, 22 August 2026

Backdoored arrayref crate ran infostealer at build time in DPRK-linked attack

Attackers hijacked the maintainer account behind arrayref, the tiny array-conversion crate sitting in roughly 75% of Rust environments, and shipped a 0.3.10 version that pulled a typosquatted proc-macro1 dependency. Its build script downloaded and ran an infostealer at compile time, after staging fake releases to push developers onto the poison. Wiz ties the infrastructure to DPRK-linked campaigns against Mastra and axios; crates.io has since pulled the malicious versions.

Read the source: wiz.io ↗In the 22 August issue →