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The malicious "rustdecimal" crate

Wednesday May 11, 2022. 03:55 PM , from LWN.net
The Rust Blog warns
developers of a malicious crate named rustdecimal, which was
evidently targeted at GitLab users who mistype rust_decimal.

The crate contained identical source code and functionality as the
legit rust_decimal crate, except for the Decimal::new function.

When the function was called, it checked whether the GITLAB_CI
environment variable was set, and if so it downloaded a binary
payload into /tmp/git-updater.bin and executed it. The binary
payload supported both Linux and macOS, but not Windows.
https://lwn.net/Articles/894808/
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