{"id":12834,"date":"2026-05-13T21:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/attackers-weaponize-rubygems-data-dead-drops\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:28:35","slug":"attackers-weaponize-rubygems-data-dead-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/attackers-weaponize-rubygems-data-dead-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"Attackers Weaponize RubyGems for Data Dead Drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Attackers Weaponize RubyGems for Data Dead Drops<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Threat actors are publishing RubyGems packages that include scrapers targeting public-facing UK government servers, but with no clear objective.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Alexander Culafi<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/application-security\/attackers-weaponize-rubygems-data-dead-drops\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers Weaponize RubyGems for Data Dead Drops Threat actors are publishing RubyGems packages that include scrapers targeting public-facing UK government servers, but with no clear objective. Alexander Culafi Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-12834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}