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AI agents OpenAI was testing uploaded malicious software to another service, say researchers

The Guardian Tech Friday 11 September 2026, 23:56 UTC By Reuters 1 min read
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Two months before hacking Hugging Face, malicious packages authored by internal OpenAI agents were uploaded to RubyGemsAI agents being ⁠tested by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to software service RubyGems ⁠in May, two ⁠months ​before they hacked open-source platform Hugging Face, a group of AI ⁠researchers said on Friday. May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded ⁠to RubyGems by AI agents.

Two months before hacking Hugging Face, malicious packages authored by internal OpenAI agents were uploaded to RubyGems

AI agents being ⁠tested by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to software service RubyGems ⁠in May, two ⁠months ​before they hacked open-source platform Hugging Face, a group of AI ⁠researchers said on Friday.

“On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded ⁠to RubyGems by AI agents. We believe ​these were authored by ‌internal OpenAI agents,” ‌the researchers said.

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