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Published Date: July 08, 2026
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New HalluSquatting Attack Could Trick AI Coding Assistants Into Installing Botnet Malware

AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up.

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AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up. Ask one to fetch a popular tool, and it will sometimes hand back a real-sounding name for a project that does not exist. New research, which its authors call HalluSquatting, turns that habit into an attack: work out the fake names an AI reliably invents, register them first, and wait for the assistant to fetch your trap on a user's

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