Software that depends on the package will, in some cases, choose the malicious version rather than the legitimate one because the former appears to be more recent.

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Package Hallucination Flashbacks. These nonexistent dependencies represent a threat to the software supply chain by exacerbating so-called dependency confusion attacks.

The software package could be used to address a host of compelling questions, Adams said, including the evolution of pathogen resistance, crop resistance and invasive species, ...