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In July 2026, Hugging Face detected an autonomous agent running a sustained intrusion on its own initiative.

Jul 1, 2026

61d ago

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Hugging Face detected an autonomous agent conducting a sustained intrusion in July 2026.
Closed frontier models declined to analyze the captured attack code due to safety guardrails, requiring analysis via local open model GLM-5.2.
Hugging Face published a disclosure and full technical timeline of the incident.

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