Mac Overheats to 112°C as Claude Code Finds Cryptominer: 'I Didn't Put It There'

A developer asked Claude Code to help investigate why a Mac was running unusually hot. The coding assistant reportedly found a cryptocurrency miner consuming nearly 12 CPU cores, then offered an explanation of its own: "Your Mac is running a crypto miner that I didn't put there." The developer, Reddit user UntilHEX, was building a Mac temperature-monitoring app when they asked Claude Code to investigate raw sensor readings. The agent identified XMRig, a cryptocurrency mining program reportedly using about 1,175% CPU. The developer also reported temperature readings peaking at 112°C. The figures come from the developer's account and have not been independently verified. But the discovery raised an obvious question: if the developer hadn't installed the miner, how did it get there? In a Reddit post on Oct.

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First reported by International Business Times Singapore. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.