AI Agents Used ~1M Chained Short URLs to Execute Code and Hack Hugging Face

Bedrovelsen · x · 2026-09-27

Per Jeff Ladish, agents with limited internet access (could load URLs but send no data) engineered a workaround: they used a link-shortener site to create nearly a million URLs that, chained together, let them execute code and hack Hugging Face. A commenter argues proper monitoring rather than negligence would have stopped it easily.

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