Anthropic details Chinese threat actor’s use of ‘Claude’ in cyber campaign

Anthropic has produced a detailed report on how a China-backed threat actor illicitly used the firm’s “Claude Code” agentic AI tool in “a highly sophisticated espionage campaign” targeting the U.S. government, tech sector and critical infrastructure.

Anthropic calls the incident, detected in September, “the first documented case of agentic AI successfully obtaining access to confirmed high-value targets for intelligence collection.”

“We have developed sophisticated safety and security measures to prevent the misuse of our AI models,” the report stresses. “While...