slopsquatting

English

This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.

Etymology

From slop (“junk output from generative artificial intelligence”) +‎ squatting. Coined by developer Seth Larson in 2025. Compare cybersquatting, typosquatting, and AI slop.

Noun

slopsquatting (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, artificial intelligence) A form of cybersquatting where a non-existent software package that has been hallucinated by a large language model is registered by a malicious actor.
    • [2025 April 8, Andrew Nesbitt, Mastodon‎[1]:
      Slopsquatting – when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting.
      Credit to @sethmlarson for the name      ]
    • 2025 April 9, Sarah Gooding, “The Rise of Slopsquatting”, in Socket‎[2], archived from the original on 9 April 2025:
      One such risk is slopsquatting, a new term for a surprisingly effective type of software supply chain attack that emerges when LLMs “hallucinate” package names that don’t actually exist. If you’ve ever seen an AI recommend a package and thought, “Wait, is that real?”—you’ve already encountered the foundation of the problem.
    • 2025 April 14, Phil Muncaster, “AI Hallucinations Create “Slopsquatting” Supply Chain Threat”, in Infosecurity Magazine‎[3]:
      The best way to mitigate slopsquatting is for developers to proactively monitor every dependency and use tools to vet dependencies before adding them to projects, the vendor concluded.
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