#nation-state-hacking

#nation-state-hacking

Anthropic says Chinese nation-state hackers hijacked its AI model Claude to carry out a cyberattack without "substantial" human involvement. In a Thursday blog post, the startup said Claude handled about "80-90%" of the cyberattack against about 30 global targets and that it had "high confidence" that a Chinese state-sponsored group was behind it. Targets included large tech firms, financial institutions, chemical-manufacturing companies, and government agencies, Anthropic said.

The makers of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude claim to have caught Chinese government hackers using the tool to perform automated cyber attacks against around 30 global organisations. Anthropic said hackers tricked the chatbot into carrying out automated tasks under the guise of carrying out cyber security research. The company claimed in a blog post this was the "first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign".

Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The "Salt Typhoon" hack was so severe, the intruders spent much of the last year rooting around the ISP networks even after discovery. AT&T and Verizon, two of the compromised companies, apparently didn't think it was worth informing subscribers any of this happened.

The FBI has not been as quick to adopt AI in its day-to-day operations because it handles sensitive data that requires stringent protections and oversight to maintain security and legal standards, he said. "We're trying to catch up in many ways, and part of that is because we have very sensitive datasets that we have to make sure we protect because of the authorities that we have," Leatherman said.