Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, hosted code that backdoored user devices
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Malicious submissions have been a fact of life for code repositories. AI is no different.
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Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user machines, researchers from security firm JFrog said Thursday in a report that’s a likely harbinger of what’s to come.
In all, JFrog researchers said, they found roughly 100 submissions that performed hidden and unwanted actions when they were downloaded and lo...
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