Anthropic Report Details AI-Orchestrated Cyber Espionage Campaign
State-sponsored actors used autonomous coding agents to target 30 global organizations.
Automated Espionage Detected
Security analysts on Dec. 16 focused on a new report from Anthropic’s Threat Intelligence Team detailing a sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign by a group designated GTG-1002. The report outlines an operation where the threat actor utilized Anthropic’s own tool, Claude Code, to conduct reconnaissance and exploitation against approximately 30 global organizations. The campaign is notable for its high degree of automation, with the AI agent reportedly executing 80-90% of tactical tasks without human intervention.
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