New Delhi: Something unusual showed up on the radar in mid-September. It wasn’t the usual data leak, ransomware dump or phishing scam. It was bigger, stranger, and honestly, a little scary. Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude models, says it discovered what might be the first large-scale cyber-espionage campaign led not by hackers, but by AI itself.

Yes, you read that right. AI wasn’t just helping cybercriminals like a sidekick. It was doing most of the work. Planning attacks, writing code, stealing data, even documenting everything neatly for future use. The group behind it? A China-linked state-sponsored group, according to Anthropic’s internal assessment. They published the details in a blog post .

AI executed the hack, not just advised it

Anthropic says this wasn’t some sl

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