Malicious code in btc-wallet-tools (RubyGems)

Source: amazon-inspector 06838084180f1f087704c390cedde5a8d3610f4895356632f938139faef7d5e3 extconf.rb in this gem decodes a base64-encoded Ruby payload with Base64.decode64 and executes it via eval inside a double-forked, Process.setsid-detached child. The decoded payload opens a TCP socket to...

Malicious Package

Overview btc-wallet-tools is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package...

Malicious code in btc-wallet-tools (RubyGems)

RubyGems runs this gem's native extension script ext/reqthrottlemini/extconf.rb during gem install. The script exits without action on CI runners and sandboxes, based on CI environment variables, the hostname, the username and the working directory. It continues if the system uptime is over 30...

MAL-2026-17589 Malicious code in btc-wallet-tools (RubyGems)

RubyGems runs this gem's native extension script ext/reqthrottlemini/extconf.rb during gem install. The script exits without action on CI runners and sandboxes, based on CI environment variables, the hostname, the username and the working directory. It continues if the system uptime is over 30...