The Rust Supply Chain Attack You Didn’t See Coming (And Why It’s Not Rust’s Fault)
A malicious Rust crate called ‘arrayref-proc-macro1’ executed a build-time payload, proving that supply chain attacks are migrating from Node.js to ‘safe’ languages like Rust. The real vulnerability isn’t the language—it’s the broken trust model of package managers that allow unvetted code to run with full system privileges. Developers must sandbox their builds and treat every dependency as a security liability.