CHINA IS ASSHOE: Anthropic disrupts Russian, Chinese AI campaigns targeting its Claude models.

Anthropic on Thursday said it had disrupted several alleged malicious uses of its Claude models over the past eight months, including a suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage campaign and ​efforts by Chinese AI firms it accused of trying to extract and replicate Claude’s ‌capabilities.

Cybercriminals and state-backed hackers were increasingly using AI not just to assist with tasks but to orchestrate and execute large portions of cyberattacks, Anthropic said in its latest Threat Intelligence report, ​adding that humans were often overseers rather than hands-on operators in the campaigns.

“A ​majority of the operations … were enabled by AI via direct execution ⁠or orchestration. The use of AI went beyond simple questions and responses from ​a chatbot but rather involved the use of multi-agent frameworks executing” tasks, Anthropic said.

Anthropic ​said it had disrupted what it described as attacks from seven China-based labs during that period. Among the labs Anthropic named were tech giant Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek and Xiaomi.

More: “Anthropic said it ‌observed ⁠more than 151 million exchanges it attributed to Alibaba between May and July 2026, peaking at nearly 3 million per day from more than 3,500 accounts it described as fraudulent.”