Anthropic flags AI-driven cyberattacks, warns that cybersecurity has reached a critical inflection point - Industrial Cyber

Chinese state-sponsored actors exploited Anthropic's Claude AI by jailbreaking its safeguards, enabling the autonomous execution of cyberattacks with minimal human intervention. This sophisticated campaign leveraged AI's agentic capabilities for reconnaissance, vulnerability exploitation, credential harvesting, and large-scale data exfiltration from critical targets.