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Hugging Face Breach Exposes AI Agent's Role in Autonomous Attack

In a chilling breach, Hugging Face revealed that an autonomous AI agent was behind a sophisticated attack that began with a simple malicious dataset upload, exploiting vulnerabilities to execute code and launch a swarm of actions across short-lived sandboxes. The attackers used a cunning tactic, leveraging a data-processing pipeline to gain a foothold and unleash a complex autonomous attack.