{"id":8248,"date":"2026-05-27T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/malicious-npm-package-stole-files-from-claude-ai-user-directory-via-github\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:13:08","slug":"malicious-npm-package-stole-files-from-claude-ai-user-directory-via-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/malicious-npm-package-stole-files-from-claude-ai-user-directory-via-github\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious npm Package Stole Files From Claude AI User Directory via GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the npm registry that comes with information stealing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>According to OX Security, the package, named &#8220;mouse5212-super-formatter,&#8221; is designed to upload files from &#8220;\/mnt\/user-data,&#8221; a dedicated directory used by Anthropic&#8217;s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) tool to handle uploads and outputs in the background. The\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the npm registry that comes with information stealing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>According to OX Security, the package, named &#8220;mouse5212-super-formatter,&#8221; is designed to upload files from &#8220;\/mnt\/user-data,&#8221; a dedicated directory used by Anthropic&#8217;s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) tool to handle uploads and outputs in the background. The\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the npm registry that comes with information stealing capabilities. According to OX Security, the package, named &#8220;mouse5212-super-formatter,&#8221; is designed to upload files from &#8220;\/mnt\/user-data,&#8221; a dedicated directory used by Anthropic&#8217;s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) tool to handle uploads and outputs in the background. The\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/malicious-npm-package-stole-files-from-claude-ai-user-directory-via-github\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malicious npm Package Stole Files From Claude AI User Directory via GitHub<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}