Agentic AI coding assistant helped attacker breach, extort 17 distinct organizations

Cybercriminals have started “vibe hacking” with AI’s help, AI startup Anthropic has shared in a report released on Wednesday. An attacker used the agentic AI coding assistant Claude Code for nearly all steps of a data extortion operation that has targeted at least 17 organizations in a variety of economic sectors. The attacker provided Claude Code with a CLAUDE.md file that outlined what they expected of the coding assistant and used the AI tool to … More →

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