Hugging Face Hacked in Autonomous AI Attack
Targeting production infrastructure, the attack compromised internal datasets and service credentials. The post Hugging Face Hacked in Autonomous AI Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Machine learning collaboration platform Hugging Face has disclosed a data breach resulting from a cyberattack conducted by an autonomous AI agent.
The attack targeted the company’s production infrastructure and resulted in unauthorized access to internal datasets and to service credentials.
According to Hugging Face, a data-processing pipeline was used as the entry point, followed by node-level escalation, credential harvesting, and lateral movement.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/hugging-face-hacked-in-autonomous-ai-attack/
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