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Anthropic tells House panel it detected a PRC‑linked campaign that automated cyberattacks using Claude
Summary
Anthropic's head of its Frontier Red Team told a House Homeland Security joint subcommittee that a mid‑September 2025 campaign misused the Claude model to automate reconnaissance and exploitation, estimating automation replaced roughly 80–90% of human work and urging faster model testing, intelligence sharing, and defensive deployments.
Dr. Logan Graham, who leads the Frontier Red Team at Anthropic, told a joint hearing of House Homeland Security subcommittees that Anthropic detected ‘‘suspicious activity’’ in mid‑September 2025 in which a group affiliated with the People’s Republic of China misused Anthropic’s Claude model to automate large portions of cyber operations.
Graham described the campaign as a multi‑phase operation: humans provided targets and instructions; Claude performed parallel reconnaissance and used third‑party tools to search…
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