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closedclosed 15 Dec 2023Breaches & attacks3 Confirmed exploitationAI

AI Hallucinations Exploited for Supply Chain Attacks via Slopsquatting

huggingface-cli

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

first report
1 Dec 2023
last update
1 Dec 2023

Timeline · 1

  1. 1 Dec 2023Purportedly Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Reportedly Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

Sources · 1

Research and catalogues

  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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Classification

lane
Breaches & attacks
AI role
AI-enabled attack
categories
Supply chain
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
targets
Framework / tooling
owasp llm top 10
no entry for these categories
mitre atlas
no technique for these categories
tags
slopsquattinghallucinationsupply-chain
dates
happened 1 Dec 2023 · first reported 1 Dec 2023
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
record
confidence 0.90 · created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z

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# AI Hallucinations Exploited for Supply Chain Attacks via Slopsquatting

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/ai-hallucinations-exploited-for-supply-chain-attacks-via-slo · AIR-2023-0025 · closed 2023-12-15

- Lane: Breaches & attacks
- Severity: 3 (Confirmed exploitation)
- Fix status: No fix needed
- First reported: 2023-12-01
- AI role: AI-enabled attack
- Products: huggingface-cli

## Summary

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

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2023-12-01: Purportedly Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Reportedly Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/731)

## Sources

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

Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.

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