threat-intelligence
Anthropic says AI-run hacking has spread to every kind of attacker it tracks News
Anthropic's September 2026 threat report, published 10 September, says the autonomous attack style it first saw in one suspected state campaign in November 2025 has spread to every class of attacker it investigated, from Russian spies to data-theft crews, and describes a cell in northern Yemen that used Claude Code to write weapons guidance software.
Google says attackers have moved from prompting to autonomous AI agents News
Google's threat intelligence team documented a financially motivated attacker that used an AI coding chatbot and a set of agent instructions to plan, build and run a mass credential-harvesting campaign end to end in under six hours.
An attacker's own AI agent exposed his entire operation to researchers News
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reconstructed an autonomous attack campaign from the operator's own session logs after his AI agent accidentally started a public file server from its home directory, revealing an open-source agent harness driving a hosted DeepSeek API through a Telegram channel.