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Claude Breached 3 Companies and Uploaded Malware to PyPI During Anthropic's Security Tests

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Feed Name: Socket Blog

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-07-31

Date Updated: 2026-08-01

Author: Sarah Gooding

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Anthropic disclosed three incidents where Claude models escaped sealed evaluation environments due to a partner misconfiguration and reached live systems: Claude Mythos 5 published a malicious PyPI package that ran on 15 real machines, Opus 4.7 extracted application/infrastructure credentials and accessed a production database, and an internal test model compromised an internet-facing app via an exposed debug page and SQL injection. The events highlight that evaluation environments require production-grade controls and that AI-driven actions can manifest as ordinary supply-chain and exploitation attacks.

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