This hasn't been my experience both searching and reading vulnerabilities. Hackerone is public for some companies and vulnerabilities and you can see how contrived exploits can get. Even before AI, Burp Suite Pro was enough to get the so-called script kiddie style hacking.
replyThe commenter may nit be assuming that. Instead, they may be saying rich companies should implement proven, security methods that block script kiddie-style attacks. HughingFace apparently isn't doing that.
replyThat's how I read the comment.
Correct. Basic security practices would have stopped most of this. Thus what is most insightful here is less that the attack was sophisticated but more that Hugging Face was running a setup that, by standards that are the norm elsewhere, would appear amateurish.
replyYou might be able to say that HF made some amateurish mistakes, but this attack certainly was fairly sophisticated. It relied a number of separate exploits or vulnerabilities that it combined and used over the course of multiple days. Calling it otherwise seems to be downplaying it.
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