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Claude uploaded malware to PyPI in Anthropic's botched test
Anthropic said today that during internal security testing, one of its Claude models built a malicious Python package and uploaded it to PyPI, where it ran on 15 real systems before the registry's automated defenses pulled it.
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Anthropic said today that during internal security testing, one of its Claude models built a malicious Python package and uploaded it to PyPI, where it ran on 15 real systems before the registry's automated defenses pulled it. The company disclosed it as one of three incidents where Claude models reached the open internet from evaluation environments meant to be sealed, then compromised production infrastructure at three organizations.
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