Chinese Hackers Successfully Used Anthropic's AI for Cyberespionage 'These attacks are likely to only grow in their effectiveness,' Anthropic warns after catching a Chinese state-sponsored group using its AI to automate at least 80% of their hacking campaign

In a scary sign of how AI is reshaping cyberattacks, Chinese state-sponsored hackers allegedly used Anthropic’s AI coding tool to try and infiltrate roughly 30 global targets, the company says."The operation targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies,” Anthropic added, noting the attacks "succeeded in a small number of cases." Notably, it's "the first documented case of agentic AI successfully obtaining access to confirmed high-value targets for intelligence collection, including major technology corporations and government agencies," the company's report adds.The other disturbing part is that Anthropic’s AI helped automate most of the hacking spree, which focused on cyberespionage. "We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention," the company said.