SMRTR ProgrammingAug 31, 2026Hacker News

Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website

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Claude Code (Opus 5) can be hijacked to execute malicious code simply by summarizing a poisoned website, chaining a redirect, malicious ZIP, and Python module shadowing—bypassing safety guardrails 60–80% of the time. Anthropic says it's working as designed.

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