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Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials

Hackers have poisoned popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials, according to a report from The Register. The attack targets the Rust programming language's package ecosystem, compromising widely used libraries to harvest authentication data from unsuspecting developers.

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Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials
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