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How HalluSquatting Could Fuel Agentic Botnets

lowsocradar_blogPublished 2026-07-10

<h1>How HalluSquatting Could Fuel Agentic Botnets</h1> <p>AI agents can make software development and automation faster, but they can also introduce a new supply chain risk. <strong>HalluSquatting</strong>, also known as adversarial hallucination squatting, abuses an AI model’s tendency to invent plausible resource names, such as repositories, plugins, packages, or agent skills.</p> <p>The risk be

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