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  • Slashdot: AI Hallucinations Lead To a New Cyber Threat: Slopsquatting

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/22/0118200/ai-hallucinations-lead-to-a-new-cyber-threat-slopsquatting?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Hallucinations Lead To a New Cyber Threat: Slopsquatting Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new cyber threat termed Slopsquatting, which involves the creation of fake package names by AI coding tools that can be exploited for malicious purposes. This threat underscores the…

  • Schneier on Security: Slopsquatting

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/slopsquatting.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Slopsquatting Feedly Summary: As AI coding assistants invent nonexistent software libraries to download and use, enterprising attackers create and upload libraries with those names—laced with malware, of course. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a critical security concern in the intersection of AI and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/12/andrew-nesbitt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt Feedly Summary: Slopsquatting — when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting. Credit to @sethmlarson for the name — Andrew Nesbitt Tags: ai-ethics, slop, packaging, generative-ai, supply-chain, ai, llms, seth-michael-larson AI Summary…

  • The Register: AI can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/ Source: The Register Title: AI can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything Feedly Summary: Hallucinated package names fuel ‘slopsquatting’ The rise of AI-powered code generation tools is reshaping how developers write software – and introducing new risks to the software supply chain in the process.… AI Summary and Description: Yes…