'The Irony Is Rich': Anthropic Issues Copyright Takedown Requests in Attempt to Stem Claude Code Leak

Claude Leak Shows That Anthropic Is Tracking Users' Vulgar Language and Deems Them "Negative"

AI company Anthropic suffered a massive leak of the source code to its Claude Code AI assistant earlier this week, triggering a panicked game of cat and mouse as company representatives sent out copyright takedown requests targeting thousands of copies of its pilfered work. The code allowed tinkerers to reverse engineer aspects of the blockbuster chatbot, highlighting concerns that the leak could give Anthropic’s competitors a major leg up. The …

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'The irony is rich': Anthropic issues copyright takedown requests in attempt to stem Claude Code leak

Anthropic is trying to limit the damage after sections of its popular AI coding tool were made public.

Hackers Weaponize Claude Code Leak to Spread Vidar and GhostSocks Malware

The cybersecurity community is on high alert following a massive source code leak from Anthropic. On March 31, 2026, the company accidentally exposed the complete source code for Claude Code, its flagship terminal-based coding assistant. The leak occurred due to a packaging error in a public npm package, which inadvertently included a JavaScript source map […] The post Hackers Weaponize Claude Code Leak to Spread Vidar and GhostSocks Malware app…

Claude Code is still vulnerable to an attack Anthropic has already fixed

The leak of Claude Code’s source is already having consequences for the tool’s security. Researchers have spotted a vulnerability documented in the code. The vulnerability, revealed by AI security company Adversa, is that if Claude Code is presented with a command composed of more than 50 subcommands, then for subcommands after the 50th it will override compute-intensive security analysis that might otherwise have blocked some of them, and inste…