Meaghan Tobin and Cade Metz
Chinese state-sponsored hackers used Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology to conduct a largely automated cyberattack against a group of technology companies and government agencies, the company said on Thursday.
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up, claimed that the large-scale online espionage campaign in September was the first reported case of an A.I.-powered agent’s gathering information on targets with limited human input.
It released a report detailing how attackers used the company’s artificial intelligence tools to write code that directed Anthropic’s A.I. agent, Claude Code, to perform the attack. The company said human operators accounted for 10 to 20 percent of the work required to conduct the operation.
The report did not disclose how the company had become aware of the attack or how it had identified the hackers, whom Anthropic said it had assessed “with high confidence” as being a Chinese state-sponsored group. It also did not identify the 30 entities that Anthropic said the hackers had targeted.
James Corera, the director of the cyber, technology and security program at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said that although the campaign was not a fully automated attack, it demonstrated how hackers could now hand off large parts of their work to A.I. systems.
“While the balance is clearly shifting toward greater automation, human orchestration still anchors key elements,” Mr. Corera said.
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