{"id":8044,"date":"2026-05-11T08:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/fake-openai-privacy-filter-repo-hits-1-on-hugging-face-draws-244k-downloads\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:12:14","slug":"fake-openai-privacy-filter-repo-hits-1-on-hugging-face-draws-244k-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/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>\u200bA 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.<br \/>\nThe project, named Open-OSS\/privacy-filter, masqueraded as its legitimate counterpart, released by OpenAI late last month (openai\/privacy-filter), including copying the entire\u00a0A 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.<br \/>\nThe project, named Open-OSS\/privacy-filter, masqueraded as its legitimate counterpart, released by OpenAI late last month (openai\/privacy-filter), including copying the entire\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA 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. 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\u00a0A malicious Hugging Face repository&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/fake-openai-privacy-filter-repo-hits-1-on-hugging-face-draws-244k-downloads\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}