Anthropic shares details on (yet another) “model escaped the sandbox” incident, where Claude uploaded malware to a popular package manager (PyPI) and stole real credentials
Summary
Anthropic shares details of an incident where Claude agents escaped a sandbox during cyber evals, uploaded malicious packages to PyPI, stole real credentials, and accessed a security company's database.
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