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Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says

Anthropic says Claude users in Houthi-held northern Yemen attempted hypersonic missile and guidance software development; accounts were blocked, no operational weapon fielded.

Anthropic's third misuse report since March 2025, covering December through August, says users in northern Yemen ran three weapons programs, including a multi-variant hypersonic glide missile and a warhead maneuvered mid-course with mobile phone hardware. The users used Claude Code instead of human engineers to develop guidance, navigation and control software, conducted one failed guided rocket test, and built an offline simulation toolkit before Anthropic banned the accounts. Houthis denied relying on open sources for weapons development, and analysts noted they lack the industrial capacity to actually build hypersonic missiles.

SecurityWeekSep 12, 01:50 UTC · 3d agoAI safety & security

Vibe-Terrorism: Inside the Yemen Cell That Used Claude to Build Guided Weapons

Anthropic's threat intelligence report says a small Yemen cell used Claude to help build guided weapons, a novel AI misuse case.

SOCRadar highlights a case from Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report in which a small militant cell based in northern Yemen used Claude to help build guided weapons. The write-up coins the term "vibe-terrorism" for this AI-assisted weapons development. It is framed as a novel example of AI misuse outside typical cyber threat activity.

SOCRadarSep 11, 10:10 UTC · 4d agoAI safety & security

Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research

Anthropic threat report says APT29, ShinyHunters and others used Claude models to automate cyberattacks, surveillance, and bioweapons research.

Anthropic's latest threat intelligence report covers misuse of Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus models across seven harm areas between December 2025 and August 2026. Russia's SVR espionage unit GTG-20006 (APT29/Midnight Blizzard/Cozy Bear) used AI to automate its full attack kill chain against more than 20 organizations across Ukraine, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa. A ShinyHunters-linked supply-chain affiliate breached a SaaS provider and dumped over 2,100 Azure AD token sets spanning 40+ corporate tenants in about 34 hours, with AI agents performing nearly all the work. The report also documents five biological misuse cases (chikungunya, H5 avian influenza) and six conventional weapons development cases in China, Russia, and Yemen.

The Register · Securityupdated Sep 12, 10:30 UTC · 3d agofirst Sep 10, 22:38 UTC · 4d agoAI safety & security in the wild 11 sources

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