By MLex Staff ( July 9, 2026, 08:11 GMT | Insight) — A cybersecurity alert center affiliated with China’s industry ministry has raised alarms about Anthropic’s AI coding tool over a potential security backdoor, underscoring Beijing’s growing scrutiny of foreign artificial intelligence software amid broader efforts to tighten control over strategic AI technologies. In a notice issued Wednesday, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s Network Threat and Vulnerability Information Sharing Platform said its monitoring found Claude Code contained a serious security-backdoor vulnerability.A cybersecurity alert center affiliated with China’s industry ministry has raised alarms about Anthropic’s AI coding tool over a potential security backdoor, underscoring Beijing’s growing scrutiny of foreign artificial intelligence software amid broader efforts to tighten control over strategic AI technologies….
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