Crims laud Claude, use Anthropic's AI to plant ransomware
AI tools increasingly enable cybercrime and remote-worker fraud, and reactive defenses like account bans are largely ineffective against adaptive attackers.
Anthropic Disrupts AI-Powered Cyberattacks Automating Theft and Extortion Across Critical Sectors
An actor weaponized Anthropic's Claude and Claude Code to automate large-scale data theft and extortion across at least 17 organizations, demanding ransoms over $500,000.
Anubis Ransomware Encrypts and Wipes Files, Making Recovery Impossible Even After Payment
The ransomware features a 'wipe mode,' which permanently erases files, rendering recovery impossible even if the ransom is paid, said Trend Micro researchers.