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FakeAgent Campaign: Malicious Claude Artifact Used to Distribute SectopRAT to 29 Organisations

Researchers at Huntress disclosed a malvertising campaign named FakeAgent that abused a public artifact on Anthropic's claude.ai domain to distribute the SectopRAT information-stealing Trojan, compromising at least 29 organisations between 21 and 22 July 2026.

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Researchers at Huntress have disclosed a malvertising campaign that abused a public artifact hosted on Anthropic’s own claude.ai domain to distribute the SectopRAT information-stealing Trojan, compromising at least 29 organisations in the space of two days. The campaign, which Huntress has named FakeAgent, ran between 21 and 22 July 2026. Victims searching for “Claude Desktop […]

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