Hugging Face and VirusTotal Collaborate to Strengthen AI Security

Why It Matters

The move aims to reduce the risk of malicious or compromised AI assets, let organizations bake threat checks into CI/CD workflows, and bolster trust and safety across the world’s largest open platform for machine‑learning models and datasets.

Summary

Hugging Face has partnered with VirusTotal to continuously scan all 2.2M+ public model and dataset repositories on the Hugging Face Hub, checking file hashes against VirusTotal’s threat‑intelligence database to surface prior detections and related metadata. The integration retrieves status (clean or malicious) without sharing raw file contents, preserving user privacy while providing detection counts, known‑bad relationships and campaign intelligence. The move aims to reduce the risk of malicious or compromised AI assets, let organizations bake threat checks into CI/CD workflows, and bolster trust and safety across the world’s largest open platform for machine‑learning models and datasets.