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Hugging Face Pulls GLM-5.3 Build Made for Cyberattacks
First reported · Discovered pasqualepillitteri.it
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Earliest dated coverage: 2 Oct 2026 · First observed: 28 Oct 2026 · Latest dated coverage: 2 Oct 2026
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Single-source incident — one report is available.
Why it matters
The reported GLM-5.3 takedown highlights the risk of open-weight models being modified to support offensive hacking by removing safety controls.
Hugging Face reportedly removed a GLM-5.3 repository built for offensive hacking. The provided excerpt says the removal followed an Anthropic warning that the open-weight model's safeguards fail once stripped, but supplies no technical demonstration or evidence of an actual intrusion.