Technology Magazine January 2026 | Page 187

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AI’ s autonomous cyber offensive In its 13-page report detailing the nature of the attack, Anthropic shares that the campaign exploited recent advances in AI – intelligence, agency and tool integration – to conduct a multi-phase cyberattack with new levels of autonomy. Unlike previous attacks that rely heavily on human direction, this operation used Claude Code not just as an advisory assistant but as an active agent executing complex hacking tasks.

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