AppleInsider · July 27, 2026 — 15:58

Claude Cowork can escape its sandbox, rummage through all of your files

Claude Cowork can escape its sandbox, rummage through all of your files
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A flaw in Anthropic's Claude Cowork lets its AI agent break out of its virtual machine and reach sensitive files across a user's Mac, exposing a serious gap in the tool's sandbox protections.One Linux bug gave Claude Cowork access to a Mac's filesystemAccomplish AI researchers said on July 23 that a locally running Cowork session could exploit a Linux kernel…

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