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Alibaba

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer

Incident 10012 Report
LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

2025-03-17

In mid-March 2025, KDE’s GitLab infrastructure was disrupted by aggressive AI web scrapers originating from Alibaba IP ranges. These bots ignored robots.txt and spoofed browser headers, which in turn overwhelmed the site and caused outages for developers. Similar incidents affected other FOSS projects like GNOME, SourceHut, and Fedora. The scraping is tied to large language model training, and reportedly imposes real costs and delays.

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Incidents Harmed By

Incident 7314 Report
Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

2023-12-01

Large language models are reportedly hallucinating software package names, some of which are uploaded to public repositories and integrated into real code. One such package, huggingface-cli, was downloaded over 15,000 times. This behavior enables "slopsquatting," a term coined by Seth Michael Larson of the Python Software Foundation, where attackers register fake packages under AI-invented names and put supply chains at serious risk.

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Incidents involved as Developer

Incident 1072 Report
Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

2018-07-20

Various Chinese firms were revealed by patent applications to have developed facial recognition capable of detecting people by race, which critics feared would enable persecution and discrimination of Uyghur Muslims.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

    Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

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Huawei

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

    Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

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Megvii

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

    Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

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SenseTime

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

    Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

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Baibu

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

    Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

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Uyghur people

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

    Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

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Developers using AI-generated suggestions

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Bar Lanyado

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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OpenAI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Google

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Cohere

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Meta

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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DeepSeek AI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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BigScience

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Developers and businesses incorporating AI-suggested packages

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Organizations that incorporated fake dependencies

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Software ecosystems

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Users downstream of software contaminated by hallucinated packages

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Trust in open-source repositories and AI-assisted coding tools

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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LLM-powered coding assistants

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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ChatGPT 3.5

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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ChatGPT 4

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Gemini Pro

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Command

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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LLaMA

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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CodeLlama

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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DeepSeek Coder

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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BLOOM

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Python Package Index (PyPI)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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npm (Node.js)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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GitHub

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Google Search / AI Overview

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 731
    4 Reports

    Hallucinated Software Packages with Potential Malware Downloaded Thousands of Times by Developers

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Unnamed generative AI companies

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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FOSS projects and communities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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KDE

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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GNOME

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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SourceHut

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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Fedora

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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Inkscape

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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Curl

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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Linux Weekly News

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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Read the Docs

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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Diaspora

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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Sysadmins

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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GitLab instances

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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SourceHut infrastructure

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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Pagure.io (Fedora)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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Websites hosting FOSS documentation or bug trackers

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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AI scrapers

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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Anubis proof-of-work systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1001
    2 Reports

    LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem

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