Malicious Rust Crate 'evm-units' Delivers OS Payloads to Developers
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A malicious Rust crate named 'evm-units', masquerading as an Ethereum Virtual Machine utility, was found delivering silent, OS-specific payloads to developers' machines. Authored by 'ablerust', it was hosted on Crates.io for approximately eight months, accumulating over 7,000 downloads before being removed following a report from Socket Threat.
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