Hugging Face malware campaign returns to hijack GPUs for crypto mining
Oct 29, 2026, 10:09 PM · by BleepingComputer
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.
Source: BleepingComputer