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 -chrono_anchordnp3timestime_calibratortime_calibratorstime-syncThe crates, per Socket, impersonate timeapi.io and were published between late February and early March
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