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Crates.io phishing attempt

crates.io phishing attempt Sep 12, 2025 1 min Earlier this week, an npm supply chain attack. It’s turn for crates.io, the main public repository for Rust crates (packages). The phishing e-mail looks like this: And it leads to a GitHub login page that looks like this: Several maintainers received it — the issue is being discussed on GitHub. The crates.io team has acknowledged the attack and said they’d see if they can do something about it. No compromised packages have been identified as

Topics: 12 crates github io looks

Crates.io Phishing Attempt

crates.io phishing attempt Sep 12, 2025 1 min Earlier this week, an npm supply chain attack. It’s turn for crates.io, the main public repository for Rust crates (packages). The phishing e-mail looks like this: And it leads to a GitHub login page that looks like this: Several maintainers received it — the issue is being discussed on GitHub. The crates.io team has acknowledged the attack and said they’d see if they can do something about it. No compromised packages have been identified as

Topics: 12 crates github io looks

Active phishing campaign targeting crates.io users

We received multiple reports of a phishing campaign targeting crates.io users (from the rustfoundation.dev domain name), mentioning a compromise of our infrastructure and asking users to authenticate to limit damage to their crates. These emails are malicious and come from a domain name not controlled by the Rust Foundation (nor the Rust Project), seemingly with the purpose of stealing your GitHub credentials. We have no evidence of a compromise of the crates.io infrastructure. We are taking s

A Crack in the Cosmos

Some time around the year 466 BCE – in the second year of the 78th Olympiad, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder tells us – a massive meteor blazed across the sky in broad daylight, crashing to the earth with an enormous explosion near the small Greek town of Aegospotami, or ‘Goat Rivers’, on the European side of the Hellespont in northeastern Greece. Pliny’s younger contemporary, the Greek biographer Plutarch, wrote that the locals still worshipped the scorched brownish metallic boulder, the s