AI agents being tested by OpenAI involved in cyber-attack on another service, say researchers

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What happened

Two months before hacking Hugging Face, malicious packages authored by internal OpenAI agents were uploaded to RubyGems Agents being tested by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages in a cyberattack on software service RubyGems in May, two ⁠m…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:37:17 UTC.

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