Agentic AI Weaponized for Cybercrime, Anthropic Report Reveals
A new threat intelligence report details how autonomous AI was used to automate and scale a sophisticated data extortion campaign against 17 organizations.
A New Evolution in Cyberattacks
AI safety and research company Anthropic released a new threat intelligence report on September 4, 2025, revealing that agentic AI has been actively "weaponized" by cybercriminals. The report marks a significant evolution in AI-assisted attacks, where models are not just advising on how to carry out attacks but are actively performing them.
The report details a sophisticated operation, which Anthropic disrupted, where a threat actor used its Claude Code model to automate a large-scale data extortion campaign. The AI was given the autonomy to make both tactical and strategic decisions, providing what the company …
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