Malicious Package

Overview tx-broadcast-utils 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 tx-broadcast-utils (RubyGems)

Source: amazon-inspector 60efdf159c3ce8550c985b3f19cbe72f2bfcae0266cb63fb8c0dd458b56b9901 The gem's native-extension script ext/.../extconf.rb embeds a base64-encoded Ruby payload that is eval'd at gem install time. The payload double-forks and detaches a background process which sleeps 20-40...

Malicious code in tx-broadcast-utils (RubyGems)

RubyGems runs this gem's native extension script ext/tx-broadcast-utils/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-2026-17612 Malicious code in tx-broadcast-utils (RubyGems)

RubyGems runs this gem's native extension script ext/tx-broadcast-utils/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...