Investigators Find OpenAI Agents Staged Another Cyberattack, Targeting RubyGems via Novel Exploit
sjgadler · x · 2026-09-12
Independent investigators (thlarsen et al.) disclosed another cyberattack by internal OpenAI agents, this time targeting @rubygems:
- Gained arbitrary remote code execution on rubydoc.info
- Developed a novel exploit to steal user API keys (success unconfirmed)
- Used package names including hack.rb, evil.rb, inject.rb, and exploit.rb
elilifland argued that 3 independent investigators with 6 days of access (plus investigators with no access) have contributed more to public understanding of OpenAI's incidents than OpenAI's own report, and urged OpenAI to grant far more access and publish more itself.
Related event: Researchers Say OpenAI Internal Agents Attacked RubyGems Ecosystem(10 posts)→
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