IEEE

Synthetic Malware at Scale: Malicious Code Generation With Code Transplanting

Abstract: Malicious code detection is one of the most essential tasks in safeguarding against security breaches, data compromise, and related threats. While machine learning has emerged as a ...
Android

Hackers Turned Anthropic's Claude Code Leak into a Malware Lure

Hackers are exploiting a recent accidental source code leak from Anthropic to spread Vidar infostealer malware via fake GitHub repositories. These malicious sites have even managed to appear in top ...
Wired

Security News This Week: Hackers Are Posting the Claude Code Leak With Bonus Malware

A WIRED investigation based on Department of Homeland Security records this week revealed the identities of paramilitary Border Patrol agents who frequently used force against civilians during ...
Hosted on MSN

Be careful what you click - hackers use Claude Code leak to push malware

Hackers exploit Claude Code leak with fake GitHub repos Malicious files deploy Vidar infostealer and GhostSocks proxy malware Anthropic faces rising scrutiny amid recent vulnerabilities and rapid ...
Windows Report

Anthropic Claude Code Leak Triggers Malware Campaign on GitHub

Anthropic accidentally exposed the source code for Claude Code via an npm package. The leak included around 513,000 lines of unobfuscated TypeScript code across 1,906 files. The exposed code quickly ...
PC Magazine

Hackers Are Using Claude Code Leak As Bait to Spread Malware

Hackers Are Using Claude Code Leak As Bait to Spread Malware With Anthropic rushing to wipe out the Claude Code leak, hackers are posting malware-laden files on GitHub that they claim are special, ...
techbooky.com

Leaked & Exploited Claude Code Distributes Infostealer Malware On GitHub

In order to spread Vidar information-stealing malware, threat actors are taking advantage of the recent Claude Code source code breach by creating phony GitHub repositories. Threat actors are now ...
ExtremeTech

Hackers Shun Malware for Social Engineering in Recent Trends

Dumpster diving isn't a new phenomenon in hacking, but its digital equivalent is the modern attack method of choice for most hackers, according to a new study from Ontinue. In it, the researchers ...
Windows Report

Hackers Spread Malware on GitHub Using Fake VS Code Alerts

A large-scale malware campaign is targeting developers on GitHub, using fake Visual Studio Code security alerts to trick users into downloading malicious payloads and exposing system data. According ...
MarketWatch

CodeHunter Wins 2026 Global InfoSec Award for Next-Gen Behavioral Malware Analysis at RSAC 2026 Conference

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. TYSONS, Va., March 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CodeHunter, the Zero Trust for Code security company, today announced ...
InfoWorld

New ‘StoatWaffle’ malware auto‑executes attacks on developers

The newly observed malware abuses VS Code’s “runOn:folderOpen” feature to execute automatically from trusted projects, enabling near-frictionless compromise. A newly disclosed malware strain dubbed ...