Key Points Check Point Research discovered a campaign we track as Yoba where attackers abuse the popularity of AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude, creating fake GitHub projects that pretend to be desktop applications like GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, and Claude Opus.
Tricks from the Past deployed via signed ChatGPT and Claude binaries
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