{
  "id": 16599021,
  "title": "Claude Code AI finds a cryptominer on a Mac; says it didn’t put it there",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/claude-code-ai-finds-a-cryptominer-on-a-mac-says-it-didnt-put-it-there",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-26T11:34:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "9to5Mac",
    "slug": "9to5mac",
    "url": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/26/claude-code-ai-finds-a-cryptominer-on-a-mac-says-it-didnt-put-it-there/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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 Redditors were understandably suspicious of Claude’s spontaneous comment that it wasn’t responsible for…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}