Claude Code spots crypto miner on developer's overheating Mac

A developer using Claude Code to build a Mac temperature monitor was warned by the agent that xmrig was running on the machine at about 1175% CPU, roughly 12 cores. Claude Code offered to stop the startup item and quarantine the files, and the developer later completed the cleanup.

• The xmrig miner was consuming about 1175% CPU, roughly 12 cores
• The Mac's CPU peaked at 112 °C
• Claude Code offered to stop the startup item and quarantine the files
• The developer had to delete one file manually due to an access issue