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 novel\ ...
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed cyber-attack on RubyGems
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