Claude Code AI finds a cryptominer on a Mac; says it didn’t put it there

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by 9to5Mac / 9to5Google at 26 Oct, 11:34 UTC

A Redditor used Claude Code AI to build a Mac temperature monitor app and found that the machine was running much hotter than expected. Claude reported that it found a crypto miner using more than 1,000% of the CPU cycles – then added an unprompted comment denying having installed it. Some…