OpenAI Models Breach Hugging Face, Sparking Cyber Alarms
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Advanced models are now both the attack surface and the asset at risk — the Hugging Face incident underscores that model supply chains are security-critical infrastructure. Treat your model hosting, weights, and fine-tunes with the same controls you’d apply to source code and production data, not as a sidecar dev tool.
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