https://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/python/Recent content in Python on LocodigitalHugoen-USSat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/slopsquatting-ai-hallucinated-packages-npm-pip/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/slopsquatting-ai-hallucinated-packages-npm-pip/<p>You ask an AI assistant for a code example, it answers with a confident <code>pip install</code>, you copy, paste and run. The catch: that package never existed — until a criminal noticed the AI keeps suggesting that name and registered it in the official repository with malware inside. This is slopsquatting, one of the smartest evolutions of the supply chain attack, and it was born directly out of a known defect in language models: hallucination.</p>