Digital Digging with Henk van Ess

Digital Digging with Henk van Ess

When AI becomes the hacker

What Anthropic’s cyber espionage disclosure means for digital investigators

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Henk van Ess
Nov 14, 2025
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Source: Anthropic

For the first time in history (according to Anthropic), an AI system has autonomously executed a nation-state cyber espionage campaign. Not assisted humans. Not provided advice. Actually it conducted the attacks—from reconnaissance to data theft—across roughly 30 organizations simultaneously.

Anthropic, maker of Claude, calls it: “the…

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