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Phantom Squatting Uses AI-Hallucinated Domains for Phishing and Malware

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Attackers are registering fake domains that LLMs hallucinate and suggest to users, then hosting phishing pages to capture traffic. This "phantom squatting" technique exploits AI's tendency to invent non-existent URLs, creating new phishing vectors that email users may encounter.

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