China Warns of Claude Code ‘Backdoor’ Security Risk
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China's National Vulnerability Database warned that Claude Code versions 2.1.91–2.1.196 included a monitoring mechanism that could exfiltrate sensitive user data, advising organizations to uninstall or upgrade and tighten network controls; Anthropic disputes this, calling it an anti-abuse experiment to prevent model distillation. The advisory highlights vendor-risk, telemetry, and regional governance issues for multinational organizations with developers in China/APAC amid broader US–China AI tensions.
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