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Rust Package Maintainers Targeted with Social Engineering, Repo Takeover
Last Updated: 2026-09-18T12:35:00Z (UTC) What’s Happening According to the Rust language security response working group, maintainers of rust-lang (the repo comprising the Rust language itself) and popular packages (crates) are being targeted by social engineering attacks intended to compromise the repository. Per the post: A video call is set up for something positive — maybe for a job, maybe for a project, maybe for a contract opportunity — and then that’s used as a vector to either g...