{"id":110602,"date":"2026-07-08T15:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/china-issues-backdoor-security-alert-over-anthropics-claude-code-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:39:30","slug":"china-issues-backdoor-security-alert-over-anthropics-claude-code-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/china-issues-backdoor-security-alert-over-anthropics-claude-code-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"China issues ‘backdoor’ security alert over Anthropic’s Claude Code | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A cybersecurity platform operated by China’s industry ministry warned on Wednesday that \u200bit had identified a serious security “backdoor” risk \u200cin Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code.<\/p>\n

US<\/a>-based Claude Code is an AI agent capable of generating, debugging and reviewing code based on user prompts.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s National Vulnerability Database (NVDB), in a statement posted on its WeChat account, said Claude Code contained a built-in monitoring mechanism capable of transmitting \u2060sensitive information, including users’ geographic location and \u200bidentity-related identifiers, to remote servers without users’ consent.<\/p>\n

The \u200bwarning applied to Claude Code versions 2.1.91 through 2.1.196, according to the state-operated cybersecurity platform.<\/p>\n

Read: <\/strong>A new, inexpensive Chinese AI model is catching up with Anthropic, OpenAI on their home turf<\/a><\/p>\n

NVDB advised that organisations and users in the country should immediately review \u200baffected systems and either uninstall the impacted \u200bversions or upgrade to the latest secure release in \u200cwhich \u2060the alleged backdoor code has been removed.<\/p>\n

It also urged organisations to tighten controls on external network access for development tools and strengthen \u200btraffic monitoring \u200bon core \u2060business networks to prevent the unauthorised transfer of sensitive data.<\/p>\n

China’s Alibaba had banned employees from using Claude \u200bCode \u2060at work after the tool drew scrutiny for features enabling it to identify China-linked users, \u2060Reuters<\/em> reported last week.<\/p>\n

Anthropic did not reply to a Reuters<\/em> request for comment.<\/p>\n

Also Read: <\/strong>Alibaba.com sees CPEC 2.0 boosting trade<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A cybersecurity platform operated by China’s industry ministry warned on Wednesday that \u200bit had identified a serious security “backdoor” risk \u200cin Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code. US-based Claude Code is an AI agent capable of generating, debugging and reviewing code based on user prompts. China\u2019s National Vulnerability Database (NVDB), in a statement posted on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/anthropic1783511511-0\/anthropic1783511511-0-640x480.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t