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

    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