Hugging Face reports an attack on parts of its production infrastructure that was allegedly carried out entirely by an autonomous AI agent system. The attack spanned thousands of actions controlled by an agent framework. During forensic analysis, commercial AI models actually got in the way of the defenders because their safety guardrails couldn't tell exploit data from real attacks.
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