OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

rubyhack.ai
September 11, 2026
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Intro On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents. We believe these were authored by internal OpenAI agents (more). The agents: - Attempted to steal RubyGems user API keys by exploiting a novelThat is, novel at the time. The vulnerability was discovered and patched independently later. vulnerability in the RubyGems server. We don’t know if they succeede...
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