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Rust Supply Chain Attack on arrayref: Significant Overlap with DPRK Campaigns

ID: 423fdb54-b995-5196-9a8f-449d94b9705a

STIX ID: report--423fdb54-b995-5196-9a8f-449d94b9705a

Feed Name: Wiz Blog

Threat Score
90/100

Date Published: 2026-08-20

Date Updated: 2026-08-20

Author: Rami McCarthy

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**Supply-chain compromise on crates.io:** Malicious versions of popular Rust crates added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloads and executes a platform-specific backdoor that beacons to C2, collects host and browser profile data, persists across reboots, and supports remote commands; the incident affected widely used packages (notably arrayref) and shows infrastructure overlap with DPRK-attributed campaigns.

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