{"id":11259,"date":"2026-03-11T07:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/five-malicious-rust-crates-and-ai-bot-html\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:03:28","slug":"five-malicious-rust-crates-and-ai-bot-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/five-malicious-rust-crates-and-ai-bot-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Malicious Rust Crates and AI Bot Exploit CI\/CD Pipelines to Steal Developer Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Five Malicious Rust Crates and AI Bot Exploit CI\/CD Pipelines to Steal Developer Secrets<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five malicious Rust crates that masquerade as time-related utilities to transmit .env file data to the threat actors.<br \/>\nThe Rust packages, published to crates.io, are listed below &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>chrono_anchor<br \/>\ndnp3times<br \/>\ntime_calibrator<br \/>\ntime_calibrators<br \/>\ntime-sync<\/p>\n<p>The crates, per Socket, impersonate timeapi.io and were published between late February and early March<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/five-malicious-rust-crates-and-ai-bot.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; chrono_anchor dnp3times time_calibrator time_calibrators time-sync The crates, per Socket, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-11259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}