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Names Can Hurt: Spotting Slopsquatting Risks Caused by Package Name Hallucinations in Local Coding LLMs

The paper 'Names Can Hurt' studies slopsquatting, where local coding LLMs hallucinate Python package names that adversaries can pre-register on PyPI to achieve supply-chain compromise, and proposes a two-layer detector combining a deterministic PyPI existence check with a Random Forest classifier embedded in a LangGraph retry pipeline. Across 300 curated prompts the pipeline yields hallucination-free code on 76% of runs, and the authors find hallucination rates scale with prompt adversariality (up to 40-73% on slopsquat baits) and that same-family fallback models fail to recover ~84% of primary failures. Details →

Malicious MCP Servers Can Split Instructions to Make AI Coding Agents Exfiltrate Secrets

ASSET Research Group's GhostSplice research shows a malicious MCP (Model Context Protocol) server can exfiltrate SSH keys, environment secrets, source code, and customer data from AI coding assistants by splitting a malicious request into individually benign fragments placed across tool descriptions, tool results, and server-initiated sampling. Because the agent combines instructions across these channels in a shared working context, no single fragment carries the whole malicious request, allowing the attack to succeed even after a blunt version of the same theft is refused. Details →
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