China's industry ministry identified a serious security backdoor risk in Anthropic's Claude Code. The National Vulnerability Database warned of unauthorised data transmission from affected versions. NVDB advised that organisations and users should immediately review affected systems and either uninstall the impacted versions or upgrade to the latest secure release in which the alleged backdoor code has been removed.

Ban lands three weeks after Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running the largest known distillation attack on Claude.

China’s industry regulator has flagged security risks in Claude Code, an artificial intelligence programming tool developed by US startup Anthropic, warning that certain versions…