Craig Peterson's Tech Talk

Search for "download Claude for Mac" or "download Anthropic" right now and a malicious ad can land at the top of the results — Craig traced it to Russian operators who've been poisoning Google's ad network specifically to target Mac users and programmers, since anyone serious about coding AI tools is likely on a Mac and using Anthropic's Claude. Click the ad expecting the real app, and the download is malware instead, built to take over the machine and use it as a launch pad for further attacks. Both Google and Anthropic have issued warnings about it. The mechanism Craig walked through is almost funny: this piece of malware — like most Russian-made malware — checks first whether the machine has a Cyrillic keyboard installed. If it does, it exits instantly and does nothing, because Russian hackers who infect a fellow Russian's machine, especially an oligarch's, answer for it. Craig's practical fix: you don't need a physical Cyrillic keyboard, just add a virtual one in your system settings, and this entire clas