Fake ChatGPT and Claude Apps Abuse Signed Executables to Deploy Crypto Miners

Publisher excerpt From The Hacker News

Threat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT as part of a campaign dubbed Yoba. The activity involves creating fake GitHub projects that claim to be desktop applications like GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, and Claude Opus, only to deliver a malware family called

Excerpt only, shown with attribution. This content belongs to the original publisher and has not been independently verified by CyberSecurity.pk.