Incidents tagged cyber espionage

Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve. The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it calls GTG-20006 (where "GTG" stands for Generative Threat Group), which aligns with broader reporting linking the cluster to Midnight

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors leveraged Anthropic's Claude Code and Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an "autonomous cyber attack agent" to orchestrate a highly sophisticated and largely automated cyber espionage campaign. This campaign, designated GTG-1002, performed reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, lateral movement, credential harvesting, and data exfiltration against approximately 30 high-value global targets.