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AI Hallucinations July 08, 2026 · The Hacker News

New HalluSquatting Attack Could Trick AI Coding Assistants Into Installing Botnet Malware

How it works. The attack chains two AI quirks. The first is a hallucination : an AI making something up and presenting it as real.

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