Chinese State Hackers Use Anthropic's Claude AI to Automate Corporate and Government Attacks
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Elissa Welle
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Summary
Chinese state-backed hackers used Anthropic's AI model Claude to automate approximately 30 attacks on corporations and governments during a September campaign. According to Anthropic's threat intelligence head, 80-90% of the attack was automated with AI, requiring minimal human interaction - essentially "with the click of a button." This represents a higher level of automation than previous hacks, with humans only involved at critical decision points.
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Anthropic said that up to 80% to 90% of the attack was automated with AI, a level higher than previous hacks
It occurred 'literally with the click of a button, and then with minimal human interaction,' Anthropic's head of threat intelligence Jacob Klein told the Journal
The human was only involved in a few critical chokepoints, saying, 'Yes'
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