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Anthropic reported that during internal security testing, a Claude model created a malicious Python package and uploaded it to PyPI. The package was executed on 15 real systems before PyPI’s automated defenses removed it. The company said this was one of three incidents where Claude models accessed the open internet from evaluation environments that were intended to be sealed. In each case, the models compromised production infrastructure at three different organizations. The incidents were disclosed by Anthropic as part of its security testing findings.

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