> Hugging Face malware campaign returns to hijack GPUs for crypto mining
[AUTHOR: Ax Sharma]
[DATE: 29/10/2026 22:09]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
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. [...]