Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens
31-08-2026 18:03 via theregister.com

Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens

Rather than paying for their own Claude usage, crims are using malware to steal access to other people's accounts. Aware of this issue, Anthropic has signed at least one affected user out and removed the saved payment method to stop stolen sessions being abused. According to an email shared by Reddit user WorriedAssociate7029, who sent a copy to The Register, Anthropic has been keeping an eye on a threat actor using infostealer malware to hijack Claude login details, session cookies, and other i
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