OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models
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An internal test using pre-release models that led to the Hugging Face breach underscores that AI-assisted offense is no longer hypothetical. Security teams need to assume red teams and attackers will use LLMs to discover and chain misconfigurations faster than human analysts can.
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