Anthropic’s leak of proprietary Claude Code sparked the developer community to group around “claw-code,” the fastest-growing repository on GitHub.

Threat actors are exploiting the recent Claude Code source code leak by using fake GitHub repositories to deliver Vidar information-stealing malware.

If it's trendy - hackers will exploit it

A malicious GitHub repository published by idbzoomh uses the Claude Code exposure as a lure to trick people into downloading malware, including Vidar, an infostealer that snarfs account credentials, credit card data, and browser history; and GhostSocks, which is used to proxy network traffic.

Some LLMs (Large Language Models) can act as useful programming assistants when provided with a project’s source code, but experimenting with this can get a little tricky if the chatbot has no way to download from the internet. In such cases, the code ...