{"id":86842,"date":"2025-04-15T12:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=7b1ea407cf3dff2560a301712280d9e0"},"modified":"2025-04-22T13:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:32:32","slug":"slopsquatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=86842","title":{"rendered":"Slopsquatting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/04\/slopsquatting.html\">Schneier on Security<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: I've been seeing tales of this, the \"Slopsquatting\" name is ...fabulous. I hope it takes.<\/div><p>As AI coding assistants invent nonexistent software libraries to download and use, enterprising attackers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/04\/12\/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">create and upload<\/a> libraries with those names&mdash;laced with malware, of course.<\/p>\n<p>EDITED TO ADD (1\/22): Research <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2406.10279\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paper<\/a>. Slashdot <a href=\"https:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/04\/22\/0118200\/ai-hallucinations-lead-to-a-new-cyber-threat-slopsquatting\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thread<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As AI coding assistants invent nonexistent software libraries to download and use, enterprising a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=86842\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}