Major chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude are usually making headlines for their latest updates. But this week has been different.

First OpenAI is under fire for safety concerns and now a new report from Anthropic states, a hacker used the AI coding assistant to automate nearly every step of a massive cybercrime spree, and it’s being called "unprecedented."

The operation targeted at least 17 organizations across healthcare, government, emergency services and even religious institutions.

Using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding tool, the attacker handled everything from scanning for vulnerabilities to writing ransomware, calculating ransom demands and even drafting polished extortion emails.

How the hacker pulled it off

Anthropic’s report de

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