{
 "id": "AIR-2023-0025",
 "slug": "ai-hallucinations-exploited-for-supply-chain-attacks-via-slo",
 "title": "AI Hallucinations Exploited for Supply Chain Attacks via Slopsquatting",
 "summary": "Threat actors registered software package names hallucinated by LLMs and uploaded malicious codebases. Developers downloaded these compromised packages thousands of times.",
 "type": "ai_enabled_attack",
 "categories": [
  "supply_chain"
 ],
 "severity": 3,
 "targets": [
  "framework_or_tooling"
 ],
 "products": [
  "huggingface-cli"
 ],
 "incident_date": "2023-12-01",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2023-12-01",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/731",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "Purportedly Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Reportedly Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers",
   "published_at": "2023-12-01"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.9,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "slopsquatting",
  "hallucination",
  "supply_chain"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}