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

Anthropic says financial firms and government agencies were attacked largely without human intervention'

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".