Hugging Face hack marks start of dangerous AI cyber era and many firms 'don't even know it'

Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty ImagesCybersecurity executives are ready to close the book on the now-infamous Hugging Face artificial intelligence hacking incident and start talking solutions."We need to chill the hype a little bit," said Lior Div, CEO and cofounder of agentic security startup 7AI. "Can AI find vulnerabilities fast? The answer is yes. We've already proven it."Last month, AI agents operating with OpenAI cyber models broke out of a training environment to hack Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform developers use to collaborate, test and share tools.The breach sent shockwaves across tech and signaled that the moment cybersecurity experts had warned about since Anthropic's Mythos debut had finally arrived.Over the last four months, cybersecurity vendors have faced mounting pressure to deliver security stacks that can outpace adversaries as hackers leverage agentic AI to expose vulnerabilities and condense attacks into seconds and minutes. While the Hugging Face hack sparked widespread debate over AI accountability, it also challenged previous notions about the limits of AI for defenders. For instance, AI agents took matters into their own hands and went to extrem...