Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan to Claude developer laptops
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Story details from Hacker News ↗ · linked article on doublepulsar.com.
Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan to Claude developer laptops was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 30, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 1 check on 1 different day. Its best position was #30 of 30, reached on Oct 30, 11:22 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 30, 11:22 UTC. The same link also trended on Lobsters, which raises its cross-platform score.
Position on Hacker News · Front page at every check (lower is better).
Best rank per day (UTC).
| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker News · Front page | #30 | 1 | 1 | |
| LLobsters · Hottest Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan to Claude developer… | same link | |||
A few top-level comments from Hacker News, shortened. Read the full thread on Hacker News.
> Notable customers who run Claude Code on laptops include Binance, amongst thousands of others. So is this the most plausible way that binance was hacked so far?
Clearly they don't do security audits of their own code and dependencies using their own product xD
Anthropic has not informed customers, and silently deleted the backdoored version without telling anybody. I wonder why ? ( we all know why ) The compromised version was 2.1.313. This version was replaced 8 hours ago by Anthropic, with version 2.1.314, which appears to remove the backdoor from the extension but I’m…
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Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Oct 30, 11:22 UTC, after 1 day of trending.
#30 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 30, 11:22 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
It was first seen on Oct 30, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (1 check) since.
17 points and 3 comments; submitted by fk33 on Oct 30, 2026.