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Toby Murray, Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne

An AI lab says Chinese-backed bots are running cyber espionage attacks. Experts have questions

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Over the past weekend, the US AI lab Anthropic published a report about its discovery of the “first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign”.

The company says a Chinese government–sponsored hacking group used Anthropic’s own Claude AI tool to automate a significant part of an effort to steal sensitive information from around 30 organisations.

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