AI-kodassistent stoppade kryptominer på utvecklares Mac

2026-10-19 • Kategori: Hårdvara

TL;DR: AI-kodassistent varnade utvecklare för en dold kryptominer som dränerade systemresurser på hens Mac.

A developer using Claude Code to help build a temperature monitor app got a friendly warning from the coding agent. “Your Mac is running a crypto miner that I didn’t put there,” flagged the helpful agent. “I saw xmrig using about 1175% CPU, roughly 12 cores,” it informed its human master. Perhaps developer and Redditor UntilHEX should have sensed the crypto miner’s presence without AI help, as they admitted the malware’s presence “explains why my Mac has been running like s**t.”Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.