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For the study, researchers conducted 30 tests, 16 in the programming language and 14 in JavaScript, which produced 19,200 code samples in a total of 576,000 code samples. Of the 2.23 million package references included in these samples, 440,445, or 19.7 %, pointed to the packages that were not present. In the deception of these 440.445 package, the package was unique in 205,474.
One of the things that makes the package potentially useful in supply chain attacks is that 43 % of the package deception was repeated on 10 questions. Researchers wrote, “In addition,” 58 % of the time, a repetition of a fraudulent package more than once in 10 repetitions, which shows that the majority are not merely random mistakes, but is a repetitive event that maintains numerous repetition. The reason for this is to take advantage of the Hallic principles.
In other words, many package deceptions are not randomized once. In fact, specific names of non -existent packages are repeated. The attackers can identify the pattern by identifying any existing packages repeatedly. The attackers will then publish malware using these names and wait for a large number of developers to access them.
This study exposed the disparity in LLMS and programming languages, which created the most package deception. The average percentage of frauds made by Open Source LLMs such as Kodilama and Dippic was about 22 %, while trade models are slightly higher than 5 %. The code written in Azgar resulted in a lower deception than the JavaScript code, which has an average of about 16 %, while for JavaScript is more than 21 %. Asked what is the difference, Spring wrote: