{"id":1913,"date":"2026-05-11T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:36:43","slug":"fake-openai-privacy-filter-repo-hits-1-on-hugging-face-draws-244k-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/blog\/fake-openai-privacy-filter-repo-hits-1-on-hugging-face-draws-244k-downloads\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform&#8217;s trending list by impersonating OpenAI&#8217;s Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users.<\/p>\n<p>The project, named\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Open-OSS\/privacy-filter\">Open-OSS\/privacy-filter<\/a>, masqueraded as its legitimate counterpart, released by OpenAI late last month (<a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/openai\/privacy-filter\">openai\/privacy-filter<\/a>), including copying the entire description verbatim to trick unsuspecting users into downloading it.Access to the malicious model has since been disabled by Hugging Face.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy Filter was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/introducing-openai-privacy-filter\/\">unveiled<\/a>\u00a0in April 2026 by the artificial intelligence (AI) company as a way to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) in unstructured text with an aim to incorporate strong privacy and security protections into applications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The repository had typosquatted OpenAI&#8217;s legitimate Privacy Filter release, copied its model card nearly verbatim, and shipped a loader.py file that fetches and executes infostealer malware on Windows machines,&#8221; the HiddenLayer Research Team\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiddenlayer.com\/research\/malware-found-in-trending-hugging-face-repository-open-oss-privacy-filter\">said<\/a>\u00a0in a report published last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/fake-openai-privacy-filter-repo-hits-1.html\">Read the Full Story Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The Hacker News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform&#8217;s trending list by impersonating OpenAI&#8217;s Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users. 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