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Claude Code AI finds a cryptominer on a Mac; says it didn’t put it there

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  • 9to5Mac · October 26, 2026 11:34
    A Redditor used Claude Code AI to build a M a c temperature monitor app and found that the machine was running much hotter than expected. Claude reported that it found a crypto miner using more than 1,000% of the CPU cycles – then added an unprompted comment denying having installed it. Some…