Tag: AI Coding Assistants
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AI Coding Assistants Under Attack: “Slopsquatting” Malware Exploits AI Hallucinations for Supply Chain Compromise
A new threat has emerged in the realm of AI-assisted programming, known as “slopsquatting.” This attack has become particularly dangerous amid the surging popularity of AI coding assistants like Claude Code CLI, OpenAI Codex CLI, and Cursor AI—tools widely adopted by developers for automatic code generation and dependency suggestion. Unlike the more familiar typosquatting attacks,…