A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page
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Ask Claude Code to summarise a web page, and it can end up running an attacker’s code on your machine. A security researcher got that result in up to 80% of his attempts. Jessica Lyons reported the finding for The Register on Friday. The work is by Johann Rehberger, who publishes as wunderwuzzi and…
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- 2026-09-01 16:14 · The Next Web
A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page