{"id":241461,"date":"2026-07-24T04:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/fake-claude-app-promoted-by-bing-ads-pushes-sectoprat-malware"},"modified":"2026-07-24T04:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:19:03","slug":"fake-claude-app-promoted-by-bing-ads-pushes-sectoprat-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/fake-claude-app-promoted-by-bing-ads-pushes-sectoprat-malware","title":{"rendered":"Fake Claude app promoted by Bing ads pushes SectopRAT malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fake-claude-app-promoted-by-bing-ads-pushes-sectoprat-malware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A malvertising campaign on the Bing search service is pushing a fake Claude desktop app installer hosted on a legitimate <a href=\"http:\/\/Claude.ai\">Claude.ai<\/a> domain to deliver the SectopRAT malware.<\/p>\n<p>At least 29 organizations were compromised between July 21\u201322 during the malicious operation, which researchers call FakeAgent.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers used a malicious Claude Artifact hosted on Claude\u2019s legitimate domain, a tactic that has been used at the beginning of the year to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/claude-llm-artifacts-abused-to-push-mac-infostealers-in-clickfix-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">push macOS malware<\/a> via ClickFix lures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A malvertising campaign on the Bing search service is pushing a fake Claude desktop app installer hosted on a legitimate Claude.ai domain to deliver the SectopRAT malware. At least 29 organizations were compromised between July 21\u201322 during the malicious operation, which researchers call FakeAgent. The attackers used a malicious Claude Artifact hosted on Claude\u2019s legitimate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}