Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection
- ID
- 23561
- Status
- new
- Published
- 11 Sep 2026, 10:10 PM
- Fetched
- 12 Sep 2026, 12:34 AM
- Provider
- The Hacker News
- Category
- security
- Original URL
- https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/russian-state-sponsored-hackers-use.html
- Source URL
- https://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHackersNews
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
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