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Alibaba bans Anthropic's Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered

Ban lands three weeks after Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running the largest known distillation attack on Claude.

Alibaba Pulls the Plug on Anthropic's Claude Code Usage Over Alleged 'Back-Door' Risks

Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code from July 10, citing security risks after hidden tracking ...

Mozilla researchers demonstrate Claude Code vulnerability using hidden DNS records

Agentic coding tools vulnerable to command execution via DNS records ...
The Next Web

Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code

Alibaba listed Anthropic's Claude Code as high-risk software after researchers found steganographic markers that flagged Chinese users by timezone and proxy.
CybernewsOpinion

Claude Code apparently uses code to detect Chinese users: Is this fine?

According to a Reddit user, their discovery is alarming because the method used to transmit the findings is steganography, a ...
India Today on MSN

Anthropic tried to spy on Chinese Claude users through hidden code, now faces backlash

Anthropic is rolling back a hidden tracking feature in Claude Code after developers accused it of quietly tracking users' locations and possible links to China. The company says it was an anti-abuse ...