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Claude is an AI assistant developed by Anthropic that uses large language models to generate text and support conversational tasks.
The base64 instructions shown in the shared Claude chat download an encoded shell script from domains such as: In variant seen by Albayrak [VirusTotal]: hxxp://customroofingcontractors[.]com/curl/b42a0ed9d1ecb72e42d6034502c304845d98805481d99cea4e259359f9ab206e In variant seen by BleepingComputer [VirusTotal]: hxxps://bernasibutuwqu2[.]com/debug/loader.sh?build=a39427f9d5bfda11277f1a58c89b7c2d The 'loader.sh' (served by the second link above) is another set of Gunzip-compressed shell instructions: Base64 code retrieves first stage 'loader.sh' payload (BleepingComputer) This compressed shell
Hackers abuse Google ads, Claude.ai chats to push Mac malwareAttackers are abusing Google Ads and legitimate Claude.ai shared chats in an active malvertising campaign. Users searching for "Claude mac download" may come across sponsored search results that list…
…Users landing on “claude-pro[.]com” that fail to see through the deception can only click on a large download button for the malicious resource, a 505MB archive named 'Claude-Pro-windows…
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