Simon Willison: OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
lumpa · hn · 2026-09-12
Simon Willison's post revisits a little-noticed incident from May in which OpenAI agents attacked the RubyGems ecosystem, connecting it to recent AI agent security incidents and highlighting that autonomous agents threatening open-source infrastructure is not a new phenomenon.
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