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Hugging Face malware campaign returns to hijack GPUs for crypto mining

BleepingComputer · Ax Sharma

Published by the source: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:09:24 -0400

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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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