Malicious code in keccka (RubyGems)

Source: amazon-inspector e4f005ef5a4a20f9aadcdd2c6e78e6d68bb52765b2f5fac2abee6abd7dd261c5 The gem's native extension is a cover: ext/keccka/keccka.c is an empty stub and extconf.rb — auto-executed by gem install — contains a base64-wrapped Ruby payload decoded and passed to eval. The payload...

Malicious Package

Overview keccka 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 authorship...

Malicious code in keccka (RubyGems)

RubyGems runs this gem's native extension script ext/keccka/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 minutes and...

MAL-2026-17604 Malicious code in keccka (RubyGems)

RubyGems runs this gem's native extension script ext/keccka/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 minutes and...