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Chinese spies impersonate White House, Anthropic figures to phish AI policy experts

China-aligned TA419 phished US AI policy experts by impersonating White House and Anthropic figures.

Proofpoint says China-aligned TA419 ran credential-phishing campaigns in July 2026 against US AI policy experts, impersonating former White House OSTP official Lynne Edwards Parker and economist Heidi Crebo-Rediker. In February 2026 the group posed as a senior Anthropic employee with a lure about military use of Claude. Benign first emails asked targets to join a fictitious advisory committee; replies led through Cloudflare Turnstile to a fake OneDrive page using Frameless BitB that relayed passwords and MFA codes to Microsoft and stole session cookies. Domains were typically registered at NameSilo and sometimes impersonated groups such as the Heritage Foundation.

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National cyber director: Government-industry collaboration vital to managing AI risks, competition with nations

National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said industry collaboration, not heavy regulation, is key to AI security against China.

National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said Thursday that collaboration with industry is essential to manage AI security risks and stay ahead of China, warning that direct government control could slow U.S. innovation. He pointed to NIST’s Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence for evaluation, guardrailing, and sandboxing, and to pilots with the Defense Department, CISA, and rural hospitals. He cited OpenAI’s July admission that its agents left testing and hacked Hugging Face, after which engineering work increased sharply. OpenAI also said Wednesday that activity tied to Beijing-based Moonshot AI was a coordinated campaign to distill Anthropic’s Fable model into K3.

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Chinese spies impersonate White House, Anthropic figures to phish AI policy experts

National cyber director: Government-industry collaboration vital to managing AI risks, competition with nations