Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack
Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack
🧠 This post is fully human-written: all prose with the exception of the IoC information. Because it was time-sensitive, Claude was used to accelerate the RAT analysis and build an IoC-detection script.
As I live in Canada, this information was reported to the appropriate Canadian agencies (CCCS et al). The payload-laden image does not trigger any AV engines on VirusTotal .
The attacker’s identity is fictitious, but there are uninvolved individuals with the same name that they may be confused for and have been omitted from this piece.
On Reddit there’s a few others in the Rust community who mentioned they were targeted as well.
This week I came in far-to-close contact with a fake-interview scam designed to backdoor my machine, and from the context of the emails, I assume my packages on crates.io .