A revised patch has been released for a flaw in the distribution platform for Ruby applications, RubyGems, which could be used to deliver malware to someone trying to download a program. RubyGems lets ...

New malicious RubyGems packages have been discovered that are being used in a supply chain attack to steal cryptocurrency from unsuspecting users. RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby ...

A decade-long RubyGems maintainer, Ellen Dash (also known as duckinator), has resigned from Ruby Central following what she described as a "hostile takeover" of the open source project.… RubyGems is ...

Ruby Central, a non-profit organization that manages a package management system for Ruby, has expelled the maintainer of a related system called RubyGems, sparking controversy over a 'takeover.' A ...

Ruby Central is said to have quietly snatched control of several flagship Ruby open source projects from their long-time maintainers without their consent, following pressure from Shopify, one of its ...

Below is a copy and paste of a PDF written by a maintainer named Ellen Dash about the RubyGems controversy, written by a Hacker News user. Ellen, who has been a member of the Ruby community since she ...

For two years now, a Korean threat actor has been publishing malicious open source software (OSS) packages designed to steal credentials from spam marketers. Are you tired of shady, throwaway online ...

A new threat campaign is using RubyGems as a dead drop to store exfiltrated data, but the attacker's long-term plans are less clear. Software development security vendor Socket published research ...

The RubyGems package repository has fixed a critical vulnerability that would allow anyone to unpublish ("yank") certain Ruby packages from the repository and republish their tainted or malicious ...

Over 700 malicious packages with names similar to legitimate ones have been uploaded to RubyGems, a popular repository of third-party components for the Ruby programming language. The upload took ...