A visitor watches an artificial intelligence sign on an animated screen at the Mobile World Congress, the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on Feb. 28, 2023. Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images
Researchers at artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Nov. 13 that they have uncovered the first use of AI in a cyberattack by a foreign government.
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based developer of AI chatbot Claude, stated in a blog post that it was highly confident that state-sponsored Chinese threat actors had used the company’s Claude Code tool to create an attack framework that, once put in play, required minimal human involvement.
