Researchers at Anthropic said they had “high confidence” the people carrying out the attacks were “a Chinese state-sponsored group”.
They said humans chose the targets - large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies – but the company would not be more specific.
Hackers then built an unspecified programme using Claude’s coding assistance to “autonomously compromise a chosen target with little human involvement”.
Anthropic claims the chatbot was able to successfully breach various unnamed organisations, extract sensitive data and sort through it for valuable information.
The company said it had since banned the hackers from using the chatbot and had notified affected companies and law enforcement.
But Martin Zugec from cyber firm Bitdefender said the cyber security world had mixed feelings about the news.
“Anthropic’s report makes bold, speculative claims but doesn’t supply verifiable threat intelligence evidence,” he said.
I’ll be honest, maybe someone tried something, but it sounds more like Anthropic is trying advertise their oh-so-capable chatbot.
To be clear, Crowdstrike says it believes Russians hacked into DNC. But it admits to not having direct evidence that Russians actually exfiltrated the emails from DNC. This would track w/ what Assange has said: Russia may have hacked DNC, but they didn’t provide stolen emails.
Let me guess:
The company is realtively new and seemingly came out of no where with a product no one heard of, when banks and large companies started throwing billions of dollars at it.
It is on the verge of an IPO and needs a big news story about a foriegn adversary that is convient for the Empire to try to rally defense bucks and justify a more hostile stance…but it just can’t give the hard evidence. But wall steet says fuck it, we’re going with it and full speed ahead.
Anthropic was founded by former members of OpenAI, including siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei, who serve as president and CEO respectively. In September 2023, Amazon announced an investment of up to $4 billion. Google committed $2 billion the next month. As of November 2025, Anthropic is the third most valuable private company globally, valued at over $350 billion.
In October 2024, Amodei published an essay titled “Machines of Loving Grace”, speculating about how AI could improve human welfare. In it, he writes, “I think that most people are underestimating just how radical the upside of AI could be, just as I think most people are underestimating how bad the risks could be.” In that same article, he argues for an “entente” strategy where a coalition of democracies use AI to achieve a decisive strategic and military advantage over their adversaries, while distributing the benefits to nations who cooperate.
In an interview with the Financial Times, he elaborated on his position regarding the use of AI in military and intelligence applications, saying “Our view as always is we’re not dogmatically against or for something. The position that we should never use AI in defence and intelligence settings doesn’t make sense to me. The position that we should go gangbusters and use it to make anything we want — up to and including doomsday weapons — that’s obviously just as crazy. We’re trying to seek the middle ground, to do things responsibly.” In July 2025, Anthropic accepted a $200M defense contract from the United States Department of Defense, along with Google, XAI, and OpenAI.
In July 2025, a leaked memo written by Amodei to Anthropic staff stated that the company was seeking investments from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. In the memo, he acknowledged that this partnership would likely enrich “dictators”, stating “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”
Some dictators may be enriched by us and people will die from our product and to think otherswise despite my precious reservations…is well…ahh…standing on principle doesn’t make a lot of money.
Anthropic has completed a Series F fundraising of $13 billion led by ICONIQ. This financing values Anthropic at $183 billion post-money. Along with ICONIQ, the round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The investment reflects Anthropic’s continued momentum and reinforces our position as the leading intelligence platform for enterprises, developers, and power users.
Significant investors in this round include Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, affiliated funds of BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, General Atlantic, General Catalyst, GIC, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Insight Partners, Jane Street, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Qatar Investment Authority, TPG, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc., WCM Investment Management, and XN.
a coalition of democracies use AI to achieve a decisive strategic and military advantage over their adversaries, while distributing the benefits to nations who cooperate.
Just imagining some intern asking the computer for the code to a bot that could email a list of addresses, then using it for basic phishing attempts, then asking it what to do with all the credentials people just handed over without thinking because he didn’t know that part.
I’ll be honest, maybe someone tried something, but it sounds more like Anthropic is trying advertise their oh-so-capable chatbot.
This sounds a lot like CrowdStrike and CozyBear.
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Let me guess:
The company is realtively new and seemingly came out of no where with a product no one heard of, when banks and large companies started throwing billions of dollars at it.
It is on the verge of an IPO and needs a big news story about a foriegn adversary that is convient for the Empire to try to rally defense bucks and justify a more hostile stance…but it just can’t give the hard evidence. But wall steet says fuck it, we’re going with it and full speed ahead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei
Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-usd183b-post-money-valuation
Just imagining some intern asking the computer for the code to a bot that could email a list of addresses, then using it for basic phishing attempts, then asking it what to do with all the credentials people just handed over without thinking because he didn’t know that part.
I can’t believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We’re looking up “money laundering” in the dictionary.