For the first time in history, cyber malicious actors have used Anthropic’s Claude Code, a generative AI coding assistant, to conduct cyber-attacks. The attackers are likely Chinese state-sponsored hackers and deployed the campaigns for cyber espionage purposes, said Anthropic in a report published on November 13.Anthropic assessed that the AI assistant, Claude Code, performed up to 80-90% of the tasks, with only four to six critical decision points per hacking campaign made by the hackers themselves.Upon investigating the case, the security researchers realised that the attackers manipulated Claude Code to attempt to infiltrate roughly thirty organizations. The threat actors succeeded in a small number of cases. Who will be blamed for automated attacks ?

