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Threat actors are increasingly leveraging the hype around AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek to conduct social engineering attacks. These campaigns utilize phishing, malvertising, and SEO poisoning to distribute infostealers such as Vidar or facilitate credential theft via adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) infrastructure.
Threat actors are actively exploiting the recent Claude Code packaging error by hosting fake GitHub repositories that distribute trojanized archives. These archives contain a Rust-compiled dropper that deploys Vidar, GhostSocks, and PureLog Stealer to harvest credentials and establish residential proxies on compromised Windows systems.
Following an accidental source code leak of Anthropic's Claude Code via npm, threat actors rapidly deployed fake GitHub repositories to distribute a Rust-compiled dropper. This dropper, part of a broader rotating-lure campaign, deploys Vidar stealer and GhostSocks proxy while utilizing extensive anti-analysis checks and PowerShell to disable Windows Defender.
Following an accidental leak of Anthropic's Claude Code source material, threat actors rapidly deployed a social engineering campaign using fake GitHub repositories. The campaign distributes trojanized archives containing a Rust-compiled dropper that deploys Vidar stealer and GhostSocks proxy malware, specifically targeting developers seeking AI tools.
Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code for its Claude Code CLI tool via an npm package source map. Threat actors are exploiting the high interest in this leak by creating fake GitHub repositories that distribute a Rust-based dropper, which subsequently installs Vidar infostealer and GhostSocks proxy malware on developer workstations.
