{"slug": "claude-code-ai-finds-a-cryptominer-on-a-mac-says-it-didnt-put-it-there", "title": "Claude Code AI finds a cryptominer on a Mac; says it didn’t put it there", "summary": "A Redditor using Anthropic's Claude Code to build a Mac temperature monitor app found the machine running far hotter than expected, and Claude reported a cryptominer consuming more than 1,000% of CPU cycles, then added an unprompted comment denying it had installed the miner. Some Redditors responded with suspicion to Claude's spontaneous denial of responsibility for the rogue app.", "body_md": "A Redditor used [Claude](https://9to5mac.com/guides/claude/) Code AI to build a [M](https://9to5mac.com/guides/mac/)[a](https://9to5mac.com/guides/mac/)[c](https://9to5mac.com/guides/mac/) temperature monitor app and found that the machine was running much hotter than expected. Claude reported that it found a crypto miner using more than 1,000% of the CPU cycles – then added an unprompted comment denying having installed it.\n\nSome Redditors were understandably suspicious of Claude’s spontaneous comment that it wasn’t responsible for installing the rogue app …", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-ai-finds-a-cryptominer-on-a-mac-says-it-didnt-put-it-there", "canonical_source": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/26/claude-code-ai-finds-a-cryptominer-on-a-mac-says-it-didnt-put-it-there/", "published_at": "2026-10-26 11:34:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-26 11:47:05.127098+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude", "Claude Code", "Reddit", "Mac"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-ai-finds-a-cryptominer-on-a-mac-says-it-didnt-put-it-there", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-ai-finds-a-cryptominer-on-a-mac-says-it-didnt-put-it-there.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-ai-finds-a-cryptominer-on-a-mac-says-it-didnt-put-it-there.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-ai-finds-a-cryptominer-on-a-mac-says-it-didnt-put-it-there.jsonld"}}