{"id":8673,"date":"2026-07-01T08:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/phantom-squatting-uses-ai-hallucinated-domains-for-phishing-and-malware\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:11:41","slug":"phantom-squatting-uses-ai-hallucinated-domains-for-phishing-and-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/phantom-squatting-uses-ai-hallucinated-domains-for-phishing-and-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantom Squatting Uses AI-Hallucinated Domains for Phishing and Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bLarge language models keep inventing web addresses that do not exist. Attackers have started buying those made-up domains before anyone else can, then hosting phishing pages on them to catch traffic that AI tools point their way.<\/p>\n<p>Palo Alto Networks&#8217;\u00a0Unit 42\u00a0calls the trick phantom squatting, and its new research shows it is already happening in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>The reason it matters is\u00a0Large language models keep inventing web addresses that do not exist. Attackers have started buying those made-up domains before anyone else can, then hosting phishing pages on them to catch traffic that AI tools point their way.<\/p>\n<p>Palo Alto Networks&#8217;\u00a0Unit 42\u00a0calls the trick phantom squatting, and its new research shows it is already happening in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>The reason it matters is\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bLarge language models keep inventing web addresses that do not exist. Attackers have started buying those made-up domains before anyone else can, then hosting phishing pages on them to catch traffic that AI tools point their way. Palo Alto Networks&#8217;\u00a0Unit 42\u00a0calls the trick phantom squatting, and its new research shows it is already happening in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/phantom-squatting-uses-ai-hallucinated-domains-for-phishing-and-malware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phantom Squatting Uses AI-Hallucinated Domains for Phishing and Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}