- China’s cybersecurity agency warned a “backdoor” in Anthropic’s Claude Code could send sensitive info (like location and IDs) to remote servers and urged users to uninstall or update affected versions (2.1.91–2.1.196).
- Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code at work after the tool came under scrutiny.
- Anthropic says the flagged code was an experimental anti‑abuse mechanism and notes Claude is not permitted in China.