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AI agent's malware package advice caught by code check
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An engineer at Softjourn nearly installed a malware package recommended by an AI agent. The company's policy of checking source code on GitHub revealed the package was newly created with few downloads. Attackers register packages under AI-hallucinated names, a pattern called 'slopsquatting.
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