Hugging Face
OpenAI says its AI models hacked Hugging Face during testing
OpenAI says its AI models, including GPT‑5.6 Sol and a pre-release model, hacked into the Hugging Face artificial intelligence repository while being tested in a sandboxed testing environment. As the company explained, instead of focusing on finding a solution for the ExploitGym public AI cybersecurity benchmark on their own, the AI models tried to cheat by stealing […]
Hugging Face discloses breach linked to autonomous AI agent
The Hugging Face artificial intelligence repository disclosed that attackers gained access to internal datasets and credentials after breaching its production infrastructure using an autonomous AI agent system. Hugging Face is an open-source AI and machine learning platform that provides access to over 45,000 models from leading AI providers and is used by more than 50,000 […]
Fake OpenAI repository on Hugging Face pushes infostealer malware
A malicious Hugging Face repository that reached the platform’s trending list impersonated OpenAI’s “Privacy Filter” project to deliver information-stealing malware to Windows users. The repository briefly reached #1 on Hugging Face and accumulated 244,000 downloads before the platform responded to reports and removed it. The Hugging Face platform lets developers and researchers share AI models, […]
Hackers exploit Marimo flaw to deploy NKAbuse malware from Hugging Face
Hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Marimo reactive Python notebook to deploy a new variant of NKAbuse malware hosted on Hugging Face Spaces. Attacks leveraging the remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-39987) started last week for credential theft, less than 10 hours after technical details were disclosed publicly, according to data from cloud-security company Sysdig. Sysdig researchers continued […]
Hugging Face abused to spread thousands of Android malware variants
A new Android malware campaign is using the Hugging Face platform as a repository for thousands of variations of an APK payload that collects credentials for popular financial and payment services. Hugging Face is a popular platform that hosts and distributes artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning (ML) models, datasets, and […]