Developers Beware: Slopsquatting & Vibe Coding Can Increase Risk of AI-Powered Attacks

Developers Beware: Slopsquatting & Vibe Coding Can Increase Risk of AI-Powered Attacks

Slopsquatting and vibe coding are fueling a new wave of AI-driven cyberattacks, exposing developers to hidden risks through fake, hallucinated packages.

Slopsquatting - Schneier on Security

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.

New “Slopsquatting” Threat Emerges from AI-Generated Code Hallucinations

AI code tools often hallucinate fake packages, creating a new threat called slopsquatting that attackers can exploit in public code repositories.

AI-gested code assistants repeatedly suggest package names that do not exist. Attackers can use them to include malicious code. (Software development, programming languages)

Slopsquatting: The Emerging Supply Chain Threat Fueled by AI Hallucinations

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, a new threat has emerged that exploits the very tools designed to enhance productivity: generative AI coding assistants. Dubbed “slopsquatting,” this insidious supply chain attack leverages AI-hallucinated package names to infiltrate systems with malicious code, posing a significant risk to organizations worldwide. For CXOs and security experts, understanding and mitigating this threat is criti…

Slopsquatting: One in five AI code snippets contains fake libraries

Security researchers have identified a new potential threat to software supply chains stemming from AI-generated code through a technique called "slopsquatting." The article Slopsquatting: One in five AI code snippets contains fake libraries appeared first on THE DECODER.