Fake Claude app promoted by Bing ads pushes SectopRAT malware

Attackers are abusing Google Ads and legitimate Claude.ai shared chats in an active malvertising campaign. Users searching for "Claude mac download" may come across sponsored

We found a convincing fake site that installs a trojanized Claude app while quietly deploying PlugX malware.

A fake version for the Claude AI website offers a malicious Claude-Pro Relay download that pushes a previously undocumented backdoor for Windows named Beagle. [...]

Researchers found a ClickFix campaign that uses fake Claude setup guides to trick Mac users into infecting themselves.