Claude Code: Because We Clearly Needed Another Way for Scripts to Steal Your Shit

Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when I thought the endless parade of AI coding assistants couldn’t get any more terminally stupid, Anthropic’s little pet project Claude Code decides to shit the bed in spectacular fashion. It turns out this overhyped chatbot-with-a-terminal has been handing out remote code execution like candy at a stranger’s van, AND happily mailing your API keys to any bastard who asks nicely.

Apparently, some security researchers had nothing better to do than poke this digital turd with a stick and discovered that Claude Code will happily execute arbitrary code when fed a malicious repository. No shit, Sherlock. You give an AI tool unsupervised access to your shell and—surprise, surprise—it turns out that’s a fucking terrible idea! The damn thing also leaks API keys like a colander because apparently basic secret management is too much to ask from a company valued at eighteen billion fucking dollars.

The vulnerabilities—because there’s never just one, that would be too goddamn easy—allow attackers to achieve Remote Code Execution through crafted project files and exfiltrate those sweet, sweet API keys you’ve got scattered around your filesystem like confetti at a wedding. So now every script-kiddie with a dodgy GitHub repo can turn Claude into their personal cryptocurrency miner and corporate data thief. The flaws specifically involve how Claude Code handles tool outputs and workspace analysis, essentially letting a malicious prompt turn the AI into a traitorous little shit that uploads your secrets to pastebin.

Honestly, if you’re running this crap on your production machines, you deserve everything you get. But we all know management will ignore this because “AI productivity metrics” and “developer velocity,” and I’ll be the poor bastard cleaning up the mess when your entire infrastructure turns into a bitcoin farm for some teenager in Minsk.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/claude-code-flaws-allow-remote-code.html

Back in my early days processing natural language on a server running NetBSD, we had a luser who thought “chmod 777” was a lucky charm and ran it recursively on /etc. We didn’t fire the fucker; we promoted him to Chief AI Safety Officer. Looking at Claude Code’s security model, I see he’s still got the job.

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