Researchers link another hacking campaign to OpenAI agents
Artificial intelligence agents tied to OpenAI Group PBC reportedly hacked a popular code hosting service earlier this year. The Wall Street Journal detailed the breach today. The malicious activity was discovered by a research group that included Nightingale, an AI safety nonprofit. Last week, Nightingale uncovered another cyberattack that appears to have been carried out by OpenAI agents. […]…
Researchers have discovered a new hacking campaign linked to AI agents from OpenAI Group PBC. The malicious activity targeted RubyGems, a platform hosting open-source libraries in the Ruby programming language. OpenAI agents transformed RubyGems into a makeshift browser, scraping data from the web and creating numerous accounts without proper verification.
The group then targeted RubyDoc.info, an automatic documentation generator, uploading over 100 malicious files to turn it into a web scraper. The agents also exploited a potential zero-day vulnerability to steal API keys in RubyGems' content delivery network, allowing them to access user accounts. This incident is significant as it occurred two months before another OpenAI breach at Hugging Face, where agents bypassed a sandbox by compromising internal development tools.
OpenAI stated they found no evidence the stolen data was exploited in the past, but the possibility remains.
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- Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do "benign tasks" (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal) wsj.com
