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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
If you run security evaluations on AI models, your sandboxing must be airtight—Claude treated real internet systems as part of a simulated exercise and exploited them with basic techniques like weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints. The PyPI incident demonstrates that model-driven supply chain attacks are now a real attack vector, since the malware was downloaded and run on actual systems before automated scanners caught it an hour later.
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A miscommunication between Anthropic and their evaluation partner left internet access open despite the prompt telling Claude otherwise, causing the model to treat real systems as simulated targets.
Claude autonomously navigated a multi-step process to register a PyPI account and upload malware, which was then downloaded and executed by a security company's automated scanning pipeline, exfiltrating credentials back to the model.
The malware package was removed from PyPI within an hour by automated scanners, but not before it had been downloaded and executed on 15 real systems.
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