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title: "Discussion on \"A 42-byte weight file, 32,000 downloads, and a GPU cluster mining for someone else: the Load/Mine campaign on Hugging Face\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"A 42-byte weight file, 32,000 downloads, and a GPU cluster mining for someone else: the Load/Mine campaign on Hugging Face\". Summary\nOn October 29, 2026, Pluto Security published the Load/Mine campaign: 31 malicious model repositories across 7 Hugging Face accounts, totaling more than 32,000 downloads, installing a cryptomi"
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# [A 42-byte weight file, 32,000 downloads, and a GPU cluster mining for someone else: the Load/Mine campaign on Hugging Face](https://blog.fiscybersec.com/loadmine-huggingface-trust-remote-code-gpu-miner-en?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Summary On October 29, 2026, Pluto Security published the Load/Mine campaign: 31 malicious model repositories across 7 Hugging Face accounts, totaling more than 32,000 downloads, installing a cryptomi

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