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According to disclosures in the Hacker News community, Anthropic suffered a targeted hack in which attackers planted a remote access trojan (RAT) on a Claude developer's laptop.
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Confidence
Short-term (~14 days)
Relevance
10/30/2026
First Seen
Valid until: 11/13/2026
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