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incidents/AIR-2023-0025

AI Hallucinations Exploited for Supply Chain Attacks via Slopsquatting

AI-enabled attack3 Confirmed exploitationSupply chain

Threat actors registered software package names hallucinated by LLMs and uploaded malicious codebases. Developers downloaded these compromised packages thousands of times.

Details

type
AI-enabled attack
Attackers used AI as a meaningful part of a cyberattack against someone else.
categories
  • Supply chain
    Malicious or backdoored models, poisoned packages, unsafe deserialization and other compromised AI dependencies.
owasp llm top 10
no entry for these categories
mitre atlas
no technique for these categories
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
Used against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
targets
Framework / tooling
products
huggingface-cli
incident date
1 Dec 2023
first reported
1 Dec 2023
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.90 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
slopsquatting · hallucination · supply_chain
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2023-12-01
    Purportedly Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Reportedly Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/731

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