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Morning Edition · Saturday, September 19, 2026Published at 2:16 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic Says Attackers Are Running Operations on Agent Frameworks, Not Just Asking for Help
Its September threat report describes a Russia-linked espionage campaign that used Claude to automate reconnaissance and rebuild tooling after detection against more than 20 organizations.
Anthropic's threat intelligence report covers eight months of disrupted misuse, from December 2025 through August 2026, across seven harm categories including cyber operations, influence operations, surveillance, fraud, biological misuse, c…
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Autonomous Agents Move Into Cyber Offense
AI agents increasingly run end-to-end intrusions, chaining supply-chain footholds into privilege escalation and credential theft at machine speed, outpacing human and current automated defenses.
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