diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 123014908..97dfb906f 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -4,3 +4,7 @@ updates:
     directory: "/"
     schedule:
       interval: "daily"
+  - package-ecosystem: "cargo"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "daily"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.github/workflows/custom_dependabot.yml b/.github/workflows/custom_dependabot.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b820bd060..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/custom_dependabot.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-name: CustomDependabot
-
-# We cannot use the standard dependabot workflows to scan our rust components because
-# only password or token auth are supported and since we tokens to authenticate to our
-# Azure Devops hosted cargo feeds can only have a maximum lifetime of 7 days that is
-# not feasible.
-
-# In order for the dependabot scripts at https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-script
-# We need to perform the following actions:
-# - Update the cargo version in the image (see note below) to the current version
-# to get support for private registry auth
-# - Copy .cargo/config.toml from our repository into the $HOME/.cargo in the image
-# because some build steps in our build.rs scripts need the registry indexes in the global config
-# - Authenticate to our cargo feeds, read the token from $HOME/.cargo/credentials.toml, and pass
-# that into the container image via CARGO_REGISTRIES_<name>_TOKEN env vars
-
-# Note: The dependabot-script repo uses an old version of the dependabot core image and
-# has not been updated in a while 
-# (see https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-script?tab=readme-ov-file#warning---scripts-are-currently-broken)
-# and so we may be stuck on an old version of dependabot until this gets addressed.
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 0 * * 1' # Runs at 01:00 UTC every Monday
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-  id-token: write
-
-jobs:
-  dependabot:
-    permissions:
-      contents: write  # for Git to git push
-      id-token: write
-      pull-requests: write  # for repo-sync/pull-request to create pull requests
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, X64, "1ES.Pool=hld-kvm-amd"]
-    steps:
-
-    - name: Checkout repo
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-    - uses: hyperlight-dev/ci-setup-workflow@v1.0.0
-      with:
-        rust-toolchain: "1.81.0"
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
-    - name: Build Debug
-      run: cargo build --verbose
-
-    - name: install toml-cli
-      run: cargo install toml-cli
-
-    - name: Checkout dependabot
-      run: |
-        cd /tmp/
-        git clone https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-script
-
-    - name: Build image
-      run: |
-        pushd /tmp/dependabot-script
-        docker build -t "dependabot/dependabot-script" -f Dockerfile .
-        popd
-        # the dependabot-script image has a very old version of the rust toolchain and we need to update it
-        pushd ./hack
-        docker build -t "dependabot/dependabot-script-patched" -f rust-dependabot-patch.Dockerfile .
-
-    - name: Run dependabot
-      env:
-        # Select your package manager
-        PACKAGE_MANAGER: cargo
-        # Options can turn on extra features (not required)
-        OPTIONS: |
-            { }
-        GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
-      run: |
-        HYPERLIGHT_CARGO_TOKEN=$(toml get $HOME/.cargo/credentials.toml registries.hyperlight_packages.token | tr -d '"' )
-        docker run -v $PWD:/src \
-        -v $PWD/.cargo/config.toml:/home/dependabot/.cargo/config.toml \
-        -e PROJECT_PATH=$GITHUB_REPOSITORY \
-        -e PACKAGE_MANAGER=$PACKAGE_MANAGER \
-        -e CARGO_REGISTRIES_HYPERLIGHT_PACKAGES_TOKEN="$HYPERLIGHT_CARGO_TOKEN" \
-        -e DIRECTORY=/src \
-        -e GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=$GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN \
-        -e OPTIONS="$OPTIONS" \
-        dependabot/dependabot-script-patched
-