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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aisha Down

AI firm claims it stopped Chinese state-sponsored cyber-attack campaign

Smartphone with the Claude tool open on the screen.
Anthropic says its coding tool, Claude Code, was manipulated to attack 30 entities. Photograph: Ted Hsu/Alamy

A leading artificial intelligence company claims to have stopped a China-backed “cyber espionage” campaign that was able to infiltrate financial firms and government agencies with almost no human oversight.

The US-based Anthropic said its coding tool, Claude Code, was “manipulated” by a Chinese state-sponsored group to attack 30 entities around the world in September, achieving a “handful of successful intrusions”.

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