Malicious Hugging Face model masquerading as OpenAI release hits 244K downloads

A fake AI model repository on Hugging Face (a platform for sharing AI models) impersonated OpenAI's Privacy Filter and tricked 244,000 users into downloading it before removal. The malicious repository contained a loader.py file that delivered infostealer malware (software that steals passwords and credentials) to Windows systems, highlighting risks in how companies source and validate AI models from public repositories.