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Five Malicious Rust Crates and AI Bot Exploit CI/CD Pipelines to Steal Developer Sec - Stanley - Mar 19, 2026

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

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 -

chrono_anchor
dnp3times
time_calibrator
time_calibrators
time-sync

The crates, per Socket, impersonate timeapi.io and were published between late February and early March

https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/five-malicious-rust-crates-and-ai-bot.html