Choblin(@choblin29):WTF. A Mac user asked Claude to build a temperature monitor app to figure out why their machine was running hot, and the model discovered an unauthorized xmrig cryptominer using 12 cores and pushing the CPU to 112 degrees Celsius. 'Your Mac is running a cryptominer that I didn't put there,' Claude wrote after tracing the persistence mechanism to a LaunchAgent installed on August 29.

2026.10.19 07:36

WTF. A Mac user asked Claude to build a temperature monitor app to figure out why their machine was running hot, and the model discovered an unauthorized xmrig cryptominer using 12 cores and pushing the CPU to 112 degrees Celsius. 'Your Mac is running a cryptominer that I didn't put there,' Claude wrote after tracing the persistence mechanism to a LaunchAgent installed on August 29.