tailscale.com v1.104.4
PkgFire would install this release with a warning.·Checked 11 hours ago·Published 27 October 2026
Why
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warnSuspicious behaviour
Detects access to sensitive files (credentials, configs, keys)
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warnSuspicious behaviour
Detects URLs to suspicious domains often used for exfiltration or C2
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warnSuspicious behaviour
Detects base64 decoding followed by code execution
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warnSuspicious behaviour
Detects unicode homoglyphs and uncommon characters used for obfuscation
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warnSuspicious behaviour
Suspicious code in the published package: pkgfire-install-hook-fetches-and-executes
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warnSuspicious behaviour
Possible credential in the published package: generic-api-key
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warnSuspicious behaviour
Possible credential in the published package: private-key
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warnRelease cooldown
Published 3 days ago, inside the 7-day cooldown. Most malicious releases are pulled within hours of publication, so a version this new has not yet had time to be caught.
What the code does
On its own this is weak signal: plenty of honest libraries read files or talk to the network. What PkgFire watches is a release gaining something the one before it did not.
Source patterns
Patterns found in the source, including those malware is known to use.
Other checked releases
Check every dependency before it installs
This page is one release. PkgFire checks every package in your lockfile, on every install and in every pull request, and blocks the bad ones before they run.