Phantom Squatting Uses AI-Hallucinated Domains for Phishing and Malware
Large 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.
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