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Phantom Squatting Uses AI-Hallucinated Domains for Phishing and Malware
Attackers are exploiting AI-generated fake domains by purchasing them and hosting phishing pages or malware, a tactic named 'phantom squatting' by Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42. The practice leverages domains hallucinated by large language models to direct traffic to malicious sites.
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