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AI-Driven Hallucinations in Cyber Supply Chain Lead to New Threat: Slopsquatting | Washington D.C. & Maryland Area | Capitol Technology University
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Slopsquatting turns LLM hallucinations into a practical software supply-chain attack vector, meaning developers relying on AI coding assistants can be tricked into pulling attacker-controlled malicious packages.
A Capitol Technology University blog post describes 'slopsquatting,' a supply-chain threat in which AI code assistants hallucinate non-existent package names that attackers can pre-register with malicious code, causing developers who follow the AI's suggestions to install compromised dependencies.