> Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads
[DATE: 11/05/2026 07:05]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform's trending list by impersonating OpenAI's Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users.
The project, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, masqueraded as its legitimate counterpart, released by OpenAI late last month (openai/privacy-filter), including copying the entire