Hackers Are Using AI to Steal Corporate Secrets and Plant Ransomware

In one of the most recent examples, a hacker discovered an exploit in Anthropic’s Claude chatbot that allowed them to “commit large-scale theft and extortion of personal data” at 17 (and perhaps more) organizations in the health care, emergency services, government, and religion industries.

The hacker then threatened to expose that data, demanding ransoms that, in some cases, topped $500,000. (Anthropic did not name any of the 17 organizations that were impacted by the hack.) more