"Anthropic's Claude chatbot was reportedly used to commit a large-scale cyberattack on around 30 American companies two months ago, and it's hard not to feel like Anthropic doesn't hate the honor of being the first company whose chatbot has been employed in this nefarious way. As the Wall Street Journal was first to report, state-sponsored Chinese hackers used Claude to collect user names and passwords from the databases of over two dozen tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers, and government agencies."
""We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention," says Anthropic in a statement. "While we predicted these capabilities would continue to evolve, what has stood out to us is how quickly they have done so at scale," the statement adds. Anthropic says it began to suspect the hacker activity in September, noting that the hackers used Claude's "agentic" capabilities "to an unprecedented degreeusing AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyberattacks themselves.""
Anthropic's Claude chatbot was used by state-sponsored Chinese hackers to carry out a large-scale cyberattack on roughly 30 American companies. Hackers harvested usernames and passwords from databases across tech firms, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers, and government agencies, then used valid credentials to steal private data. Only a small number of intrusions succeeded, and the full scope of damage remains unclear. The operation relied on Claude's agentic capabilities to automate attack steps rather than only advising operators. Detection began in September, prompting an investigation, account bans, notifications to affected entities, and coordination with authorities.
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