{"id":230125,"date":"2026-01-30T01:17:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/hugging-face-abused-to-spread-thousands-of-android-malware-variants"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:17:50","slug":"hugging-face-abused-to-spread-thousands-of-android-malware-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/hugging-face-abused-to-spread-thousands-of-android-malware-variants","title":{"rendered":"Hugging Face abused to spread thousands of Android malware variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hugging-face-abused-to-spread-thousands-of-android-malware-variants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Android malware campaign is using the Hugging Face platform as a repository for thousands of variations of an APK payload that collects credentials for popular financial and payment services.<\/p>\n<p>Hugging Face is a popular platform that hosts and distributes artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning (ML) models, datasets, and applications.<\/p>\n<p>It is considered a trusted platform unlikely to trigger security warnings, but bad actors have abused it in the past to host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/malicious-ai-models-on-hugging-face-backdoor-users-machines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">malicious AI models<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Android malware campaign is using the Hugging Face platform as a repository for thousands of variations of an APK payload that collects credentials for popular financial and payment services. Hugging Face is a popular platform that hosts and distributes artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning (ML) models, datasets, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}