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Trending Hugging Face Repo With 200K Downloads Spreads Windows Malware


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2026-05-11 10:24:05
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A malicious Hugging Face repository, Open-OSS/privacy-filter, that abused the platform’s trust and trending algorithm to deliver a sophisticated Rust-based infostealer to Windows users. The project briefly reached the #1 trending position with roughly 244,000 downloads and hundreds of likes before Hugging Face took it down, strongly suggesting the threat actor artificially boosted its popularity to […]


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