What is slopsquatting, and why your scanner cannot see it
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A developer asks an AI assistant for code that uploads a file to an S3 bucket. The assistant returns twelve confident lines, including an import of a helper library. The library sounds plausible. It has the naming conventions of a real package. It does not exist. Six months ago, that was a broken b…
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- 2026-09-09 17:27 · DEV Community — AI
What is slopsquatting, and why your scanner cannot see it