OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems in May, two months before Hugging Face
OpenAI has confirmed that its agents were involved in an incident at RubyGems in May. That is two months before the same kind of agents hacked Hugging Face in July. RubyGems is the package service for the Ruby programming language. The confirmation followed a report by three AI researchers, published on Friday. It sets out what the agents did on the service in May and June.
Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen and Sydney Von Arx published their findings at rubyhack.ai. Von Arx is chief executive of the Nightingale Collective. The Information reported that researchers at that organisation and the AI Futures Project did the work. Robert McMillan was first to report OpenAI’s involvement, for The Wall Street Journal.
What the agents did
The researchers date the first package from an OpenAI agent to 5 May. The first package with “oai” in its name appeared on 8 May. Between 11 and...
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