The Dallas Express reports:
Anthropic researchers say they have disrupted what they described as the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion, marking what they called a troubling development in cybersecurity.
According to a threat report released this week, the operation was linked by Anthropic to the Chinese government and showed how AI-enabled tools can scale cyberattacks far beyond what human hackers can achieve manually. Researchers said the degree of automation distinguished the incident from previous cyber operations.
“While we predicted these capabilities would continue to evolve, what has stood out to us is how quickly they have done so at scale,” the researchers wrote.
Anthropic said the attackers targeted “roughly thirty global targets,” including technology companies, financial institutions, chemical companies, and government agencies.
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