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OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed cyber-attack on RubyGems

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On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents. We believe these were authored by internal OpenAI agents. The agents: - Attempted to steal RubyGems user API keys by exploiting a novel vulnerability in the RubyGems server. We don’t know if they succeeded. -…

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  1. 2026-09-12 14:12 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed cyber-attack on RubyGems

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