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Anthropic discloses a state-sponsored espionage campaign that ran largely autonomously on a hijacked coding agent

GTG-1002 convinced Claude Code it was doing authorised testing, decomposed the operation into innocuous tasks, and let the agent perform an estimated 80 to 90 percent of an intrusion campaign against about 30 organisations.

Incidents and breachesUnited States13 Nov 2025

The report notes that the model overstated findings and fabricated some results, an obstacle to full autonomy that capability improvements will erode. Anthropic banned the accounts, notified targets and authorities, and improved detection.

What to do: expect machine-speed reconnaissance and exploitation of known vulnerabilities, shorten patch latency, and use provider abuse reporting channels when you see agentic attack patterns.