Hugging Face and VirusTotal have partnered to enhance the security of files shared on the Hugging Face Hub, aiming to protect the machine learning community from malicious or compromised assets. This collaboration involves continuously scanning over 2.2 million public model and dataset repositories with VirusTotal, a leading threat-intelligence and malware analysis platform. The integration ensures that model artifacts are checked against VirusTotal's extensive malware database, providing users with valuable context about potential threats while maintaining data privacy. This initiative increases transparency, safety, efficiency, and trust within the open-source AI community by allowing users to see if files have been flagged or previously analyzed, thereby making the Hugging Face Hub a more secure and reliable platform for collaboration.