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AI doesn't just assist cyberattacks anymore - now it can carry them out

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Anthropic documented a large-scale cyberattack using AI.

Anthropic says that a Chinese state-sponsored group is to blame.

The attack may be the first case of its kind.

The first large-scale cyberattack campaign leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) as more than just a helping digital hand has now been recorded.

Also: Google spots malware in the wild that morphs mid-attack, thanks to AI

As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic, the company behind Claude, an AI assistant, published a report (.PDF) documenting the abuse of its AI models, hijacked in a wide-scale attack campaign simultaneously targeting multiple organizations.

What happened?

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