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Beijing flagged Claude Code as a back door, and Chinese coding tools are lining up to take its place

  • Alina Maria Stan--The Next Web
  • published date: 2026-07-12 13:48:15 UTC

Beijing’s cybersecurity warning against Anthropic is expected to speed up a shift already under way. Chinese developers are moving to domestic coding tools, analysts told the South China Morning Post. China’s National Vulnerability Database, overseen by the M…

TL;DR Chinas National Vulnerability Database has flagged multiple versions of Anthropics Claude Code as containing a security back door that could send user locations and identifiers to remote serve… [+4366 chars]