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HalluSquatting: When Your AI Coding Agent Installs Malware

HalluSquatting: your AI coding agent hallucinates packages and an attacker registers them first. How to secure your SME's pipeline affordably.

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HalluSquatting is a supply-chain attack: an attacker registers a package that doesn't exist but that your AI coding agent hallucinates and recommends. When the agent installs it, it downloads the malicious package already waiting under that exact name.

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Why human code review doesn't catch this

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