China's CNVD says it found “security backdoor vulnerabilities” in Claude Code that can be used to send info like “user location and identity to remote servers”
It advised users to uninstall the software or update to its latest version
Wall Street Journal Raffaele Huang
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Discussion
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@onlyyoontv
Eunice Yoon
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Beijing said its cybersecurity threat platform found “AI coding tool Claude Code contains a security back-door vulnerability that poses a serious threat.” Yet.. Users should uninstall or upgrade from the affected Claude Code versions, 2.1.91 to 2.1.196, China's cybersecurity
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@poezhao0605
Poe Zhao
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China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology just issued a security advisory on Claude Code. Official classification: “security backdoor risk.” Affected versions: 2.1.91 through 2.1.196. Recommendation: uninstall or upgrade immediately. This is no longer a dispute [ima…
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@wittywebhandle
Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins
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The ‘backdoor’ threat discourse around Anthropic is incredibly funny as someone that actually understands this shit — The threat Anthropic is currently blamed for is that they defanged the RLHF so they can be reexamined by the model & adjusted — The security risk & capabiliti…