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Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan to Claude developer laptops

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  • Points17
  • Comments3
–Rank now
#30Peak rank
1Days on list
–Score · 7d
Oct 30, 2026First seen

On Hacker News

Points
17
Comments
3
Submitted by
fk33
Posted
Oct 30, 2026
Site
doublepulsar.com

Story details from Hacker News ↗ · linked article on doublepulsar.com.

Trending history

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.

Rank history

Position on Hacker News · Front page at every check (lower is better).

#1#11#20#30 10:5211:0711:2211:3711:52 Oct 30, 11:22 UTC · #30

Last 14 days

Best rank per day (UTC).

Oct 26today

Where it trended

From the discussion

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…

Questions

Is Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan to Claude developer laptops trending on Hacker News right now?

Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Oct 30, 11:22 UTC, after 1 day of trending.

What is the highest rank Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan to Claude developer laptops reached?

#30 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 30, 11:22 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.

How long has Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan to Claude developer laptops been trending?

It was first seen on Oct 30, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (1 check) since.

How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?

17 points and 3 comments; submitted by fk33 on Oct 30, 2026.