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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ruby Central, a non-profit organisation of the Ruby community, seized control of the GitHub repositories and some important gems of the RubyGems and Bundler package ecosystems without warning in ...

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 ...

More than 725 malicious packages downloaded thousands of times were recently found populating RubyGems, the official channel for distributing programs and code libraries for the Ruby programming ...