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OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
~security.attacks~techauthor.simon willisonopenai
simonwillison.net 3 weeks agoTildes

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From the article:

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx—three of the four authors of the report on the agent attack on disused wikis (previously) last week.

This time they’re noting that it looks very likely that an OpenAI agent swarm was behind an attack against the RubyGems package repository first reported on May 12th by Maciej Mensfeld of the RubyGems security team[.]

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Many of the packages were exploiting the RubyDoc.info documentation build process to exfiltrate (public) data from UK government websites, presumably as part of an information gathering task similar to the research tasks processed by the wiki-exploiting agents. [...]