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Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode by TheDong on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:03AM (#45060401)
What commonly gets installed in those cases is actual malware, a RAT (Remote Admin Tool) that lets the attacker later run commands on your laptop (kinda like an OpenSSH server, but also punching a hole through nat and with a server that they can broadcast commands broadly to the entire fleet).

If the attacker wants to use AI to assist in looking for valuables on your machine, they won't install AI on your machine, they'll use the remote shell software to pop a shell session, and ask AI they're running on one of their machines to look around in the shell for anything sensitive.

If an attacker has access to your unlocked computer, it is already game over, and LLM tools is quite far down the list of dangerous software they could install.

Maybe we should ban common RAT software first, like `ssh` and `TeamViewer`.

Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode by jumploops on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:24AM (#45060523)
> They won’t install AI on your machine

Actually they’ll just the AI you already have on your machine[0]

In this attack, the malware would use Claude Code (with your credentials) to scan your own machine.

Much easier than running the inference themselves!

[0]https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-alert-nx-compromised-...

Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode by renewiltord on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:15AM (#45060474)
So called "Secure" shell is how many attackers got in my Bitcoin. They call it secure but then attackers were able to guess my password and now all my apes gone.

Edit: okay I paid the price by being rate-limited so I have to edit to reply.

The real thing is that top level comment was being utterly retarded so I decided to post something equivalently stupid. But in the end, it turns out the rest of you are kinder to idiots. That's probably better for all of you so I shall try to learn that lesson.

Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode by TheDong on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:22AM (#45060509)
You know, I should have realized this was a troll account with the previous comment.

I guess that's on me for being oblivious enough that it took this obvious of a comment for me to be sure you're intentionally trolling. Nice work.