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SECURITYJul 1 · 17:00 UTCTHE REGISTER

Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding

Pentera Labs' red teamers compromised a developer's AI agent via the Claude Desktop app, achieving remote code execution on the victim's machine. The attack exploited a compromised email inbox and Claude Desktop's sync feature to manipulate the AI assistant into executing malicious commands.

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