🚨 WARNING: A malicious Hugging Face repository impersonating #OpenAI’s Privacy Filter model reached #1 trending with about 244,000 downloads in 18 hours while delivering a Rust-based infostealer to Windows users.

Hugging Face disabled the repo; researchers also linked the infrastructure to a ValleyRAT campaign.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/fake-openai-privacy-filter-repo-hits-1.html

⚡ #Microsoft is adding a 2-hour delay before VS Code extensions auto-update.

The wait gives maintainers more time to catch bad or compromised releases before they spread further.

⁃ Microsoft, #GitHub, and #OpenAI extensions update instantly
⁃ Manual updates still work anytime
⁃ npm, pnpm, Bun, Yarn, and Bundler added similar delays

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/vs-code-adds-2-hour-extension-auto.html

🔥 OpenAI is putting GPT-5.5-Cyber in defenders’ hands.

The model is being released through Daybreak to help trusted defenders find, validate, and patch software flaws.

#OpenAI is also launching Patch the Planet with Trail of Bits to support open-source projects like cURL, Python, Sigstore, and aiohttp.

Read - https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/openai-expands-daybreak-with-gpt-55.html