Fake OpenAI Repository Trending On Hugging Face Turned Out To Be Malware Trap
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A fake OpenAI repository recently climbed to the top of Hugging Face’s trending charts, amassing more than 244,000 downloads before researchers discovered it was spreading infostealer malware. Uploaded under the name “Open-OSS/privacy-filter,” the project mimicked OpenAI’s Privacy Filter release but hid a loader.py script that disabled SSL checks, fetched instructions from external servers, and ex
