🔴 Rust Team Members and Popular Crate Owners Targeted via Video Calls

The Rust project warned last week that an ongoing social engineering campaign is targeting Rust-lang team members and the owners of popular crates to hijack developer credentials and deploy malicious packages.

The crates.io team and the security response working group issued the warning. According to the alert, attackers lure targets into video calls under the guise of job offers or contract opportunities.

Once on the call, the target is tricked into installing software under the pretext of a missing audio codec or executing malicious code pasted to their clipboard.