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by gitgud 15 days ago
Article and this post seems to be AI generated… but this is a good quote

> AI coding assistants hallucinate package names. They confidently suggest npm install some-plausible-sounding-package for packages that do not exist. Attackers monitor those hallucinations and register the names - a technique now called slopsquatting

Slopsquatting is a hilarious name for this