Four groups bypass AI guardrails and compromise targets, CrowdStrike says
Original title: AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers
A Spanish- and English-speaking actor compromised at least 15 Argentine health care organizations.
CrowdStrike says four previously unreported groups, operating in Chinese, Spanish and English, Indonesian, and Russian, used agentic AI in attacks between May and August. They mostly ran older Claude and DeepSeek models, routed tasks across models, and bypassed safeguards with authorized-testing narratives, planted approval files, and, in one case, a Claude Code runtime patch called ClawGod. The Chinese-speaking actor compromised government targets in Brazil and Colombia. The Indonesian-speaking actor hit government domains in Indonesia and Bangladesh. CrowdStrike says the activity used known weaknesses rather than new exploits.
Unconfirmed: Compromise claims and model use are CrowdStrike's findings; the groups are not publicly named.
- All four groups left AI infrastructure openly accessible on web servers.
- The healthcare actor used Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Haiku 4.5, and DeepSeek V4 Pro.
- Researchers see stolen credentials and medical records from at least one healthcare victim.
- The Chinese-speaking actor primarily used Claude Opus 4.8 via a China-based AI proxy.
- Anthropic and DeepSeek had not commented when the article was published.
Impact: Stolen credentials and medical records; government and private systems compromised
- Vendors
- Anthropic
- Products
- Claude Code
- Malware
- ClawGod
- Organizations
- CrowdStrike
From the original article
4 min read at wired.com
Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.
By Lily Hay Newman · wired.com
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