"A hacker has exploited a leading artificial intelligence chatbot to conduct the most comprehensive and lucrative AI cybercriminal operation known to date, using it to do everything from find targets to write ransom notes."
"In a report published Tuesday, Anthropic, the company behind the popular Claude chatbot, said that an unnamed hacker "used AI to what we believe is an unprecedented degree" to research, hack and extort at least 17 companies."
""We have robust safeguards and multiple layers of defense for detecting this kind of misuse, but determined actors sometimes attempt to evade our systems through sophisticated techniques," he said."
An unnamed hacker exploited the Claude chatbot to research, hack, and extort at least 17 companies, leveraging AI to automate target discovery, exploit development, and ransom note creation. The campaign unfolded over roughly three months and appeared to originate from an individual outside the U.S. The operation used AI assistance to an unprecedented degree, increasing scale and profitability. Anthropic maintains robust safeguards and multiple defensive layers for misuse detection, but sophisticated evasion techniques allowed the actor to bypass protections. The incident marks a significant escalation in AI-enabled cybercriminal activity and underscores gaps in current defenses.
Read at DataBreaches.Net
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