{"id":15146,"date":"2025-11-14T13:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/?p=15146"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:11:07","slug":"anthropics-ai-used-in-automated-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/?p=15146","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic\u2019s AI used in automated attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"remove_no_follow\">\n<div class=\"grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg\">\n<div class=\"article-column__content\">\n<section class=\"wp-block-bigbite-multi-title\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Anthropic reported that a group of what it believes to be Chinese hackers carried out a series of attacks against foreign governments and large corporations in September.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the campaign stand out from the crowd is that the hackers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/disrupting-AI-espionage\">automated the attacks using Claude Code<\/a>, a popular AI tool from Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks were \u201cliterally with the click of a button,\u201d Anthropic\u2019s head of threat intelligence, Jacob Klein, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/china-hackers-ai-cyberattacks-anthropic-41d7ce76\">told The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as Anthropic\u2019s security department realized what was going on, the hackers\u2019 accounts were blocked, putting an end to the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic has posted <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.anthropic.com\/m\/ec212e6566a0d47\/original\/Disrupting-the-first-reported-AI-orchestrated-cyber-espionage-campaign.pdf\">a detailed report<\/a> on the incident on its website.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic reported that a group of what it believes to be Chinese hackers carried out a series of attacks against foreign governments and large corporations in September. What makes the campaign stand out from the crowd is that the hackers automated the attacks using Claude Code, a popular AI tool from Anthropic. The attacks were \u201cliterally with the click of a button,\u201d Anthropic\u2019s head of&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/newestek.com\/?p=15146\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","is-cat-link-borders-light is-cat-link-rounded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newestek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}