N-gated Hacker NewsSep 12, 2025
🚨🔒 Oh no, someone tried to trick the Rust community with a phishing scheme! 🚀 It's shocking that people might fall for it, but hey, at least the lengthy thank-you list for #sponsors was longer than the helpful content. 🙄🛡️
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/crates-io-phishing-attempt #RustCommunity #PhishingScheme #CyberSecurity #Awareness #HackerNews #ngated
crates.io phishing attempt

Earlier this week, an npm supply chain attack. It’s turn for crates.io, the main public repository for Rust crates (packages). The phishing e-mail looks like this: And it leads to a GitHub login pa...

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