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Researchers identify 'HalluSquatting' attack targeting AI coding assistants
Aya Spira, Elad Feldman, Avishai Wool, Ben Nassi, Stav Cohen, Ron Bitton
Global
2026-07-08
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Researchers discovered a new prompt-injection attack called 'HalluSquatting'. The attack exploits LLMs' tendency to hallucinate resource identifiers. It targets coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Cursor to install malicious reverse shells.