Safety guardrails blocked Hugging Face's defenders, not the attacker, when an AI agent breached its systems

VentureBeat

·

原始报道

↗ VentureBeat

Hugging Face’s incident response team first turned to frontier AI models to analyze a breach of the company’s production infrastructure, and the models refused to help. Commercial safety guardrails built to stop attackers blocked every forensic query because they treated the IR team’s real exploit data the same way they would treat a live attack.The attacker, an autonomous AI agent running the campaign end to end, moved laterally across the Hugging Face infrastructure for a weekend, undetected a