Today 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 the RubyGems 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 . I honestly didn’t think much about this (or even look into it) until Sydney Von Arx and Spencer Kitts (both co-authors on https://www.rubyhack.ai ) contacted me asking about RubyGems. I thought the claims they were making were completely outlandish until I actually read the code in these “GemStuffer” gems.…