AI Hallucination Squatting: The New Frontier of Supply Chain Attacks
IT InstaTunnel Team Published by our engineering team AI Hallucination Squatting: The New Frontier of Supply Chain Attacks 🤖📦 The software supply chain is under siege by a new, invisible enemy. For years, developers have been warned about typosquatting—the art of registering requessts to catch a developer who mistypes requests . But a more sophisticated and insidious threat has emerged, born not from human error, but from the creative failures of Artificial Intelligence. This is AI Hallucination Squatting (often called “AI Package Hallucination” or “Slopsquatting”). It creates a “Vibe-to-Malware” pipeline where attackers no longer need to wait for a developer to make a mistake; they simply wait for an AI to lie. As millions of developers turn to Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and GitHub Copilot to write code, they are inadvertently inviting a new breed of supply chain attacks into their corporate networks. What is AI Hallucinati...