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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