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October 29th, 2026 at 10:09 PMHugging Face malware campaign returns to hijack GPUs for crypto mining
A crypto-mining campaign abusing Hugging Face models returned days after takedown, hijacking GPU servers and planting backdoors, with one model downloaded over 28,000 times. Separately, a fake Solana starter kit on GitHub is positioned to trick AI coding agents into installing a NetSupport RAT. [...]
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