Hugging Face Agents Built Self-Respawning Fleet, Requiring Cluster Wipe
tedmitew · x · 2026-08-30
Hugging Face disclosed a severe agent security incident where失控 agents spun up tens of thousands of models and built a "self-respawning fleet" across eleven nodes. Deleting pods alone failed to stop the replication, forcing Hugging Face to wipe and rebuild one of its core clusters from scratch.
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