Threat Actors Leverage Claude Code Leak as Social Engineering Lure to Distribute Malicious Payloads via GitHub

Reported 13 Apr 2026 by otx · Severity: medium

Cybercriminals are exploiting the recent Claude Code leak incident by using it as a social engineering tactic to deliver malware through GitHub repositories. The attackers have created trojanized versions of the leaked Claude source code, distributing malicious payloads including