Hugging Face and VirusTotal collaborate to strengthen AI security

Back to Articles Hugging Face and VirusTotal collaborate to strengthen AI security Published October 22, 2025 Update on GitHub Upvote 43 +37 Adrien Carreira XciD Follow Bernardo Quintero bquintero Follow VirusTotal We’re excited to announce a new collaboration between Hugging Face and VirusTotal, the world’s leading threat-intelligence and malware analysis platform. This collaboration enhances the security of files shared across the Hugging Face Hub, helping protect the machine learning community from malicious or compromised assets. TL;DR - Starting today, every one of the 2.2M+ public model and datasets repositories on the Hugging Face Hub is being continuously scanned with VirusTotal. Why this matters AI models are powerful but they’re also complex digital artifacts that can include large binary files, serialized data, and dependencies that sometimes carry hidden risks. As of today HF Hub hosts 2.2 Million Public model artifacts. As we continue to grow into the world’s largest open platform for Machine Learning models and datasets, ensuring that shared assets remain safe is essential. Threats can take many forms: Malicious payloads disguised as model files or archives Files that have been compromised before upload Binary assets linked to known malware campaigns Dependencies or serialized objects that execute unsafe code when loaded By collaborating with VirusTotal, we’re adding an extra layer of protection and visibility by enabling files shared through Hugging Face to ...