🔬 research2026-07-29T00:00:00.000Z
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Hugging Face Incident
Deep technical analysis of the July 2026 Hugging Face intrusion: 17,600 autonomous agent actions across 4.5 days, two injection vectors (HDF5 file read, Jinja2 RCE), full kill chain from sandbox escape to cluster-admin, improvised C2 protocol, and the guardrail asymmetry problem.
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