“The repo named in the notice was part of a fork network connected to our own public Claude Code repo, so the takedown reached more repositories than intended,” an Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch. “We retracted the notice for everything except the one repo we named, and GitHub has restored access to the affected forks.”

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A large-scale campaign is targeting developers on GitHub with fake Visual Studio Code (VS Code) security alerts posted in the Discussions section of various projects, to trick users into downloading malware.

Anthropic’s leak of proprietary Claude Code sparked the developer community to group around “claw-code,” the fastest-growing repository on GitHub.