July 21, 2026
ThreatDown Research: Guardrail-Free AI Has Gone Mainstream, Fueling a New Era of Cybercrime
ThreatDown found 6,644 AI models advertised as guardrail-free openly available on Hugging Face, downloaded more than 22 million times in 30 days. The research warns organizations have roughly six months before the next generation of AI-powered cyberattacks goes mainstream.