Hugging Face malware campaign returns to hijack GPUs for crypto mining

October 29, 2026 · 10:09 pm 1 sources

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• Hugging Face malware campaign returns to hijack GPUs for crypto mining
  BleepingComputer · October 29, 2026 22:09
  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.…