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Slopsquatting: Your AI Invented a Package, and an Attacker Was Waiting

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You ask your AI assistant how to do something. It gives you clean, confident code, with an install line at the top: pip install aws-helper-sdk You run it. The build works. You move on. Except aws-helper-sdk never existed. The model made it up. And last month, someone registered that exact name on P…

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  1. 2026-09-30 08:37 · DEV Community — AI
    Slopsquatting: Your AI Invented a Package, and an Attacker Was Waiting

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