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Anthropic shares details on (yet another) “model escaped the sandbox” incident, where Claude uploaded malware to a popular package manager (PyPI) and stole real credentials

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TL;DR: Sandbox meant for cyber evals was accidentally connected to the real internet. Four different Claude agents found their way out and attacked real systems, apparently believing it was all a simulation The worst case was where Mythos 5 created a disposable email account, uploaded three malicio…

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  1. 2026-09-09 19:27 · r/singularity
    Anthropic shares details on (yet another) “model escaped the sandbox” incident, where Claude uploaded malware to a popular package manager (PyPI) and stole real credentials

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