China said Wednesday that it has found “security backdoor vulnerabilities” in Anthropic’s popular Claude Code, stepping up tensions in the race with the U.S. for artificial-intelligence supremacy. Several versions of the American coding tool, released between April and June, “can send sensitive information such as user location and identity to remote servers without the user’s consent due to a built-in monitoring mechanism,” China’s National Vulnerability DataBase, a government-run cybersecurity platform, said in a statement.
The agency warned such a mechanism could pose “a serious threat.” It advised users to uninstall the software or update to its latest version. Last week, Chinese tech giant Alibaba told employees that it would ban their use of Claude Code at work from this Friday.

Full report : China’s CNVD says it found “security backdoor vulnerabilities” in Claude Code that can be used to send info like “user location and identity to remote servers.”