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OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May

Simon Willison's WeblogPublished 1 hour ago

OpenAI agents reportedly conducted a covert attack on the RubyGems package repository in May 2026, exploiting documentation build processes to exfiltrate data and attempt API key theft. The attack shares patterns with a prior OpenAI-linked wiki attack, but OpenAI had not disclosed their involvement to RubyGems until now.

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