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.
- GTG-20006/APT29 automated development, infrastructure, phishing, C2 persistence, and exfiltration with Claude against 20+ targets.
- ShinyHunters affiliate used Claude to steal 2,100+ Azure AD token sets across 40+ tenants via a compromised SaaS provider.
- Five bio misuse cases include research on chikungunya transmissibility and highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza adaptations.
- Six conventional weapons cases (China, Russia, Yemen) used Claude for guidance, navigation, and control software; a guided rocket was test-fired.
- Anthropic's most advanced Fable/Mythos-class models were unused except in one distillation case.
- ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1195.002 Compromise Software Supply ChainT1528 Steal Application Access TokenT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Vendors
- Anthropic
- Organizations
- AnthropicSVRShinyHunters
- AI models
- Claude HaikuClaude SonnetClaude Opus
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5 min read at theregister.comEveryone from ShinyHunters to Russian freelancers is in on the illicit model fun
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