AI Hallucination Squatting: The New Agentic Attack Vector
IT InstaTunnel Team Published by our engineering team AI Hallucination Squatting: The New Agentic Attack Vector “If your AI agent is reading documentation from an unverified tunnel, you aren’t just reading a guide — you’re running a remote shell for a stranger.” From Quirky Chatbot Errors to Supply-Chain Weapons In the early days of generative AI, hallucinations were treated as embarrassing party tricks — a chatbot confidently citing a legal case that never existed, or inventing a historical quote. By 2024, researchers began connecting those errors to something far more consequential: a supply-chain attack vector now known as slopsquatting . The term was coined by Seth Larson, Developer-in-Residence at the Python Software Foundation, as a deliberate play on typosquatting — the old trick of registering a slightly misspelled domain to catch careless users. Slopsquatting, however, requires no typo from a human. It exploits the AI model’s own mistake. Research publi...