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Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection
By The Hacker News
Excerpt
Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve.
The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it calls GTG-20006 (where "GTG" stands for Generative Threat Group), which aligns with broader reporting linking the cluster to Midnight Blizzard (aka APT29 and Cozy Bear).
This actor is said to have developed an AI-driven process to automatically rebuild and re-deploy their toolkit if it was dete…
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