Even so, the repository — and other ML model repositories — give openings for attackers to upload malicious models with a view to getting developers to download and use them in their projects.

According to ReversingLabs, this incident highlights the growing threat posed by the misuse of ML model formats. Pickle allows serialized Python objects to execute arbitrary code. As a result, it has ...

Some LLMs (Large Language Models) can act as useful programming assistants when provided with a project’s source code, but experimenting with this can get a little tricky if the chatbot has n… ...

At least 100 instances of malicious AI ML models were found on the Hugging Face platform, some of which can execute code on the victim's machine, giving attackers a persistent backdoor.