Claude Building A Mac’s Monitoring Temperature App For A Vibecoder Uncovered A Cryptominer Using All 12 CPU Cores And Hitting 112°C
A Mac belonging to the vibecoder was hitting temperatures of 112°C, hitting the thermal throttling limit, and causing the machine to perform sluggishly. It took the use of Claude developing a temperature monitoring app for macOS to realize that there was a cryptominer running on the Mac this entire time, stealing all of the computing resources. XMRig was found to be the cryptominer running on the Mac, as it’s famously bundled with malware to consume a system’s resources To see if the temperature monitoring app was working correctly, Redditor “u/UntilHEX” asked the AI to run some accuracy…
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