We identified that arone contained malicious code executed through a build script.

This crate had 7 versions, with the most recent one being published at 2026-08-18. The crate was removed from crates.io on 2026-08-20 and the user account was locked.

This crate was used as part of a malware campaign targeted at users of arrayref, which was downloaded 2,285 times before being removed; see the arrayref advisory for more detail.