It was attempting to steal credentials from the POLYMARKET_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable.
The malicious crate had 3 versions published on 2026-02-15 and had been downloaded only 155 times. There were no crates depending on this crate on crates.io.
Thanks to Sisong Li for finding and reporting this to the crates.io team!
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