# Hugging Face and VirusTotal collaborate to strengthen AI security

DevFeed: [Hugging Face and VirusTotal collaborate to strengthen AI security](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hugging-face-and-virustotal-collaborate-to-strengthen-ai-security-7557.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/virustotal>)

Author: Adrien Carreira; Bernardo Quintero

Published: 2025-10-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [hugging face](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugging-face.md>), [VirusTotal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/virustotal.md>), [ai security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-security.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Open Source Models & Datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source-models-datasets.md>), [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>)

Tags: [ai-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-models.md>), [ai-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-security.md>), [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [hub](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hub.md>), [hugging-face](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugging-face.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [partnerships](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/partnerships.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [virustotal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virustotal.md>)

## AI overview

Hugging Face and VirusTotal are collaborating to continuously scan public model and dataset repositories on the Hugging Face Hub. The integration checks file hashes against VirusTotal intelligence without sharing raw file contents, providing malware detections, threat relationships, and related campaign context. Organizations can also use the checks in CI/CD and deployment workflows to reduce the risk of distributing malicious assets.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.