{"id":20256,"date":"2026-05-13T08:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/gemstuffer-abuses-150-rubygems-to-exfiltrate-scraped-u-k-council-portal-data-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:08:54","slug":"gemstuffer-abuses-150-rubygems-to-exfiltrate-scraped-u-k-council-portal-data-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/gemstuffer-abuses-150-rubygems-to-exfiltrate-scraped-u-k-council-portal-data-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"GemStuffer Abuses 150+ RubyGems to Exfiltrate Scraped U.K. Council Portal Data info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign dubbed GemStuffer that has targeted the RubyGems repository with more than 150 gems that use the registry as a data exfiltration channel rather than for malware distribution.<br \/>\n&#8220;The packages do not appear designed for mass developer compromise,&#8221; Socket said. &#8220;Many have little or no download activity, and the payloads are repetitive,<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/gemstuffer-abuses-150-rubygems-to.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign dubbed GemStuffer that has targeted the RubyGems repository with more than 150 gems that use the registry as a data exfiltration channel rather than for malware distribution. &#8220;The packages do not appear designed for mass developer compromise,&#8221; Socket said. &#8220;Many have little or no download activity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}