a user said they were compromised after asking Claude for help installing a transcription application
Yeah, maybe computers aren't for you.
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2026
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"oh no! I let predictive text full root access to my computer and it put a virus on it!"
I’ve seen a lot of LLM sites popping up that purport to be project pages for Open Source projects. They’re of course full of malicious links instead. Guess this is an extension of that. Can’t say I don’t feel some Schadenfreude.
Whats worse is a lot of them have hidden prompts which poison LLMs...so anybody trying to Analyse their source code with the help of any LLM will find no red flags. Manually human verification is required
Whenever developer added a new executing layer on a system, malicious people started to exploit it. Mcromedia Flash, Java, JavaScript, and now AI usage.
Yeah, that's self-inflicted