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#5 The Hacker News general May 11, 2026 at 07:05 UTC

Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

A malicious Hugging Face repository named Open-OSS/privacy-filter impersonated OpenAI's legitimate 'openai/privacy-filter' model, reaching #1 on the platform's trending list and accumulating 244,000 downloads before detection. The repository delivered a Rust-based information stealer targeting Windows users. This supply chain attack against ML model repositories demonstrates a growing attack surface for AI tooling that security teams must now monitor alongside traditional software package registries.

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Relevance score: 85.0/100

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