AI Coding Assistants Invent Fake Packages 1 in 5 Times — Attackers Are Already Registering Them
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Last month, a threat actor published nearly 800 malicious npm packages in a 48-hour window — a campaign researchers are tracking as "Flooding Dropper." The packages didn't impersonate real libraries. They used names that just sounded plausible, the exact pattern you'd expect if an AI model had sugg…
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- 2026-09-23 05:45 · DEV Community — AI
AI Coding Assistants Invent Fake Packages 1 in 5 Times — Attackers Are Already Registering Them