TechCrunch

Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model

AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow’s R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems along the lines of GitHub’s Copilot.
Dark Reading

Hugging Face AI Platform Riddled With 100 Malicious Code-Execution Models

Researchers have discovered about 100 machine learning (ML) models that have been uploaded to the Hugging Face artificial intelligence (AI) platform and potentially enable attackers to inject ...
SiliconANGLE

Critical Hugging Face Transformers flaw ran attacker code on a routine model load

Pluto Security Inc. today disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Hugging Face Inc.’s Transformers library that allowed attacker-controlled artificial intelligence models to run ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines

At least 100 instances of malicious AI ML models were found on the Hugging Face platform, some of which can execute code on the victim's machine, giving attackers a persistent backdoor. Hugging Face ...
Dark Reading

Open Source AI Models: Perfect Storm for Malicious Code, Vulnerabilities

Attackers are finding more and more ways to post malicious projects to Hugging Face and other repositories for open source artificial intelligence (AI) models, while dodging the sites' security checks ...