A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform’s trending list by impersonating OpenAI’s Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users. The project, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, masqueraded as its legitimate counterpart, released by OpenAI late last month (openai/privacy-filter), including copying the entire
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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. […]