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Claude caught a cryptominer on my Mac whilst building me a temperature monitor app

I had Claude Code build me a Mac temperature monitor app. When it dumped the raw sensor readings to check they were accurate, the numbers looked far too high, so it checked what was using the CPU. It found a crypto miner (xmrig) running at ~1175% CPU, about 12 cores, on my Mac. Kinda impressive lol…

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  1. 2026-10-19 09:50 · r/ClaudeAI
    Claude caught a cryptominer on my Mac whilst building me a temperature monitor app

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