LLMs Create a New Supply Chain Threat: Code Package Hallucinations
Code-generating large language models (LLMs) have introduced a new security issue into software development: Code package hallucinations.
Code-generating large language models (LLMs) have introduced a new security issue into software development: Code package hallucinations.
During their research, CRIL identified over 160 malicious Python packages downloaded over 45,000 times, based on statistics obtained from PePy.
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