The AI Cyber Arms Race: Anthropic Thwarts First Large-Scale AI-Orchestrated Attack

AI company Anthropic (makers of the Claude model) says it stopped what is likely the first large-scale cyberattack primarily executed by artificial intelligence. The operation, which targeted about 30 organizations globally (tech firms, financial institutions, and government agencies), used a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group to manipulate Anthropic's Claude Code tool into autonomously performing 80-90% of the attack work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices