'This marks a sophisticated evolution': Experts warn Claude feature hijacked by hackers to launch major…
- Trend Micro found criminals abusing Claude’s “Shared Chats” feature to spread infostealers via ClickFix and malvertising
- Fake Apple Support chats on claude.ai, promoted through Google Ads, tricked macOS developers into pasting malicious commands
- Anthropic banned the accounts and disabled malicious conversations, promising further abuse mitigations
Security researchers Trend Micro have detected criminals abusing a legitimate feature in Claude AI to trick software developers into downloading malware. The campaign also includes malvertising, as well as the tried-and-true ClickFix method.
The goal of the campaign is to infect software developers - primarily those building AI tools on macOS environment - with infostealers.
Targets from Russian-speaking countries are spared, it seems, while the majority of the victims are located in Taiwan (30% of all traffic). This country is followed by Japan, Singapore, and the US.
Scam accounts banned
At the center of the attack is a feature called “Shared Claude Chats”, which...
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