Chinese hackers used Anthropic’s Claude AI model to automate cybercrimes targeting banks and governments, the company admitted in a blog post this week.

Anthropic believes it’s the “first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention” and an “inflection point” in cybersecurity, a “point at which AI models had become genuinely useful for cybersecurity operations, both for good and for ill.”

AI agents, in particular, which are designed to autonomously complete a string of tasks without the need for intervention, could have considerable implications for future cybersecurity efforts, the company warned.

Anthropic said it had “detected suspicious activity that later investigation determined to be a highly sophisticated espionage campaign” back i

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