Representative Image Hugging Face, the world’s largest open-source artificial intelligence (AI) repository, has revealed that it was hit by a sophisticated hacking attack driven entirely by an “AI agent”. Hugging Face has also disclosed that after the US-made models blocked requests to neutralise the attack due to guardrails, they used an open-weight AI model from China to mitigate the attack.Hugging Face explains how AI attack unfoldedAccording to Hugging Face, the breach began in a vulnerability specific to AI hosting infrastructure: the data-processing pipeline. A malicious dataset injected into the system exploited two separate code-execution flaws. Once inside, the autonomous AI…