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Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads
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May 11, 2026 · 1 min listen
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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 description
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