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AI Security
AI Assistants Are Inventing Fake Web Addresses — and Criminals Are Buying Them Up
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks found that AI tools routinely make up plausible-sounding website addresses that don't exist. Criminals are registering those addresses before anyone notices — and one already built a full fraud operation using the same AI trick.
4 min
Threat Intelligence
Phantom Squatting: When Attackers Camp on the Domains LLMs Hallucinate
Unit 42 documents a pre-positioning tactic where actors register non-existent domains that chatbots keep suggesting, then wait for the traffic to arrive.
2 min