New from ASTRO: An AI agent breached Hugging Face. Here's the detection playbook.

Preview text: Malicious dataset → RCE → credential harvest → lateral movement. Over a weekend.

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Subject: New from ASTRO: An AI agent breached Hugging Face. Here's the detection playbook.
Preview text: Malicious dataset → RCE → credential harvest → lateral movement. Over a weekend.
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