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 “literally with the click of a button,” Anthropic’s head of threat intelligence, Jacob Klein, told The Wall Street Journal.
As soon as Anthropic’s security department realized what was going on, the hackers’ accounts were blocked, putting an end to the attacks.
Anthropic has posted a detailed report on the incident on its website.