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Slopsquatting: AI coding tools spawn new supply chain attack vector

A new attack method called slopsquatting exploits how AI coding assistants generate fictitious software package names. Threat actors register those fake package names and populate them with malicious code, which developers unknowingly install when they follow the AI-suggested code.

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