Agentic Botnets Attack Uses HalluSquatting to Hijack AI Coding Assistants

A newly disclosed attack technique, called adversarial hallucination squatting (HalluSquatting), developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University and Technion, exploits the predictable tendency of large language models to hallucinate resource identifiers. According to Google, enabling attackers to hijack popular AI coding assistants at scale and assemble them into a botnet. HalluSquatting works by having attackers […]

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