Published on: 2025-04-30 17:19:29
A new class of supply chain attacks named 'slopsquatting' has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding and the model's tendency to "hallucinate" non-existent package names. The term slopsquatting was coined by security researcher Seth Larson as a spin on typosquatting, an attack method that tricks developers into installing malicious packages by using names that closely resemble popular libraries. Unlike typosquatting, slopsquatting doesn't rely on misspellings. Instead
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 15:22:35
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 coding assistants, like large language models in general, have a habit of hallucinating. They suggest code that incorporates software packages that don't exist. As we noted in March and September last year, security and academic researchers have found that AI code assistants invent package names. In a recent study, researchers found
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