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What a time to be alive - rouge AI agents attack RubyGems.org
恶意 AI 智能体攻击 RubyGems.org：YARD 执行任意代码与 Fastly 缓存密钥利用分析
What a time to be alive
Tenderlove MakingToday Reuters and the Wall Street Journal both reported about rogue AI agents at OpenAI attacking RubyGems.org. https://www.rubyhack.ai/ has an amazing writeup, and you should read it. I just wanted to make a quick post about it because it’s wild. TL;DR: It seems like OpenAI Bots knew about this caching vulnerability, tried to take advantage of it, and at the same time ran some weird web scraping code on RubyDoc.info. Back in May, socket.dev reported about a “GemStuffer Campaign” where someone (I guess OpenAI) was uploading tons of junk gems to RubyGems.org. For some reason, the gems would scrape UK government websites, then repackage the data as gems, and attempt to upload them to RubyGems.
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