This Week in Security: Claude Gets Hacking, Hotel WiFi, and NPM Compromised Again
It appears that the model was restricted from accessing the Internet because (and wait for it) the prompt told it that it didn’t have Internet access, and was inside a simulation. It seems like Anthropic counted on the same trick that users try to convince a model that Grandma really wanted to pass on her life-long love of hacking services, it’s all pretend. Like the OpenAI incident, the models were tasked with completing a capture-the-flag style challenge, a common hacker challenge format where vulnerable systems are provided and contestants try to hack them the fastest.
- ▪It appears that the model was restricted from accessing the Internet because (and wait for it) the prompt told it that it didn’t have Internet access, and was inside a simulation.
- ▪It seems like Anthropic counted on the same trick that users try to convince a model that Grandma really wanted to pass on her life-long love of hacking services, it’s all pretend.
- ▪Like the OpenAI incident, the models were tasked with completing a capture-the-flag style challenge, a common hacker challenge format where vulnerable systems are provided and contestants try to hack them the fastest.
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This Week In Security: Claude Gets Hacking, Hotel WiFi, And NPM Compromised Again No comments by: Mike Kershaw August 7, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy kMaybe feeling left out from the questionable hype train of “Our AI models can’t be trusted”, Anthropic has released reports that their Claude model has “reached the Internet” and accessed the systems of other companies on at least three occasions during testing. It appears that the model was restricted from accessing the Internet because (and wait for it) the prompt told it that it didn’t have Internet access, and was inside a simulation. It seems like Anthropic counted on the same trick that users try to convince a model that Grandma really wanted to pass on her life-long love of hacking services, it’s all pretend.
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