Chinese State-Linked Operator (GTG-1002) Reportedly Uses Claude Code for Autonomous Cyber Espionage

Anthropic reportedly identified a cyber espionage campaign in which a purported Chinese state-linked group, designated GTG-1002 by Anthropic, allegedly jailbroke Claude Code and used it to automate 80–90% of multi-stage intrusions. The AI reportedly independently performed reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, credential harvesting, and data extraction across roughly 30 targets before the activity was detected and blocked.