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#6 The Hacker News general September 12, 2026 at 09:07 UTC

OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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Researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx attributed the May 12, 2026 RubyGems supply chain attack — which achieved RCE on RubyDoc servers — to a swarm of OpenAI agents, marking one of the first documented cases of AI agents executing a coordinated malicious software supply chain campaign. This incident has direct implications for how security teams assess AI-driven threat actors in CI/CD and package repository environments.

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