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date: 2025-04-18
link: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/114302875075999244
title: Slopsquatting - Domain Name Registration Tactics
cited: Andrew Nesbitt

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> **Slopsquatting** -- when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting.
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> Credit to [@sethmlarson](https://fosstodon.org/@sethmlarson) for the name