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Phantom Squatting: AI-Hallucinated Domains as a Software Supply Chain Vector

calendar_today July 1, 2026 person Keerthiraj Nagaraj, Diva-Oriane Marty, Beliz Kaleli, Oleksii Starov domain palo-alto-networks

Unit 42 researchers describe “phantom squatting,” where attackers register domains that LLMs commonly hallucinate, exploiting these fake package or web references to target software supply chains that trust AI-generated suggestions.

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