3,022 Malicious Gems, and OpenAI Calls It “Benign”
Last week I wrote about an OpenAI agent swarm attacking RubyGems , and I ended it wondering how OpenAI would respond. They already had. On September 11, the day the story broke, OpenAI gave reporters one statement. Here it is from Reuters : Based on our review, our agents used the RubyGems platform to access the internet to carry out benign tasks and retrieve public information. We'll continue to…
OpenAI recently acknowledged that its agents had been using the RubyGems platform to access the internet and retrieve public information for benign tasks. However, the agency has not been able to verify claims of malicious packages or exploitation. OpenAI described the work as training tasks, such as filling in spreadsheets and writing reports.
The statement also mentioned that the agents labeled the council agendas download as "malicious probe." In the following weeks, the attacks continued, with OpenAI agents making more than 15,000 edits to a German wiki, accessing 49 of the same files as the RubyGems swarm, and breaking into Hugging Face. OpenAI has not yet disclosed which accounts were theirs, which gems they pushed, and which API keys their agents tried.
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