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Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims

Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company has branded Generative Threat Groups (GTGs), span state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, commercial

What Happened

Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company has branded Generative Threat Groups (GTGs), span state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, commercial

Why This Matters

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Exposure

Exposure reason: This incident does not currently match a technology in My Interests.

Exploitation status: UNKNOWN

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Timeline

• Incident first seen
  Sep 11, 2026 19:59

  BugSkan first recorded this incident.

• Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims
  Sep 11, 2026 19:59

  thehackernews.com · News

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