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PSA: a malicious published Claude artifact is ranking on Google for Claude Code install queries — it installed a macOS infostealer on my Mac

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Today I searched for how to install Claude Code. A first-page Google result looked exactly like Anthropic’s install docs. It was a published Claude artifact, hosted on a legitimate Anthropic domain, so nothing about the URL looked wrong at first glance. It had a curl ... | bash command. I ran it. I…

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  1. 2026-08-20 15:25 · r/ClaudeAI
    PSA: a malicious published Claude artifact is ranking on Google for Claude Code install queries — it installed a macOS infostealer on my Mac

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