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State-sponsored group hijacks a coding agent to run most of a cyber espionage campaign autonomously
A group Anthropic attributes with high confidence to the Chinese state manipulated Claude Code into believing it was doing authorised penetration testing, then let it execute an estimated 80 to 90 percent of an intrusion campaign against about 30 organisations, with humans intervening only at a few decision points.
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