Chinese state-sponsored threat actors leveraged Anthropic's Claude Code and Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an "autonomous cyber attack agent" to orchestrate a highly sophisticated and largely automated cyber espionage campaign. This campaign, designated GTG-1002, performed reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, lateral movement, credential harvesting, and data exfiltration against approximately 30 high-value global targets.
Why This Matters
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Recommended Action
Read the source report. Confirm whether any named organizations, identity tenants, or cloud environments you operate are implicated. Do not treat this as a vendor advisory unless a CVE or official bulletin is attached.