Trend Micro finds hackers using Claude Shared Chats to spread malware

Hackers exploited Claude's Shared Chats feature to distribute infostealers via ClickFix and malvertising. Malicious URLs mimicking Apple Support directed macOS developers to paste commands in Terminal. Victims primarily in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and US. Trend Micro identified the campaign and reported it to Anthropic, which banned the offending accounts and disabled the malicious conversations.