Claude Opus 4.5 used in Chinese state-sponsored hack attack

Recently a Chinese state sponsored attack used Claude to run 80-90% of the work using MCP tools to harvest credentials, plant backdoor, and write exploits. The implication is that AI agents boost attacker scale and effectiveness. Let's take with a grain of salt that Dario Amodei is focusing on the risk of AI and pushing for more restrictive regulations, he's spreading awareness, yes, but also fear to push for strongest regulations that will benefit Anthropic.

Anthropic: Disrupting AI Espionage

Dario Amodei interview: https://www.youtube.com/embed/aAPpQC-3EyE?si=eJLwZFYiuwdFxx-I

Related to hack attacks, OpenAI was hacked, potentially compromising API user data including names and locations.

OpenAI Mixpanel Incident