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 ...
In September 2025, a RubyGems maintainer renamed RubyGems' GitHub Enterprise site to 'Ruby Central' without prior notice, added Marty Haught of Ruby Central, who had not previously been a RubyGems ...
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 team including maintainers removed without notice from the RubyGems.org project has formed the Gem Cooperative and created a new gem server called gem.coop, compatible with RubyGems.… Martin Emde, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...