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RubyGems Open Source Supply Chain Security and OpenAI
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Hacker News | Sep 14, 2026 | rietta
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Over the weekend it has been widely reported that OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems on May 11, 2026, two months before Hugging Face, including by mainstream wire service Reuters. The bombshell report by Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx, titled OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed cyber-attack on RubyGems, covers it well that the agents: Abused RubyDoc. info to execute arbitrary code As a company, we’re quite involved with RubyGems and security. AI agents can execute binary decompilers and patch diffing as well as they can read open source code for analysis.
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