State-backed groups are now using artificial intelligence for cyber espionage and surveillance. Suspected Russian actors employed AI in a cyber espionage operation targeting over twenty organisations. Iranian actors utilised AI for reconnaissance and tool development against military infrastructure. AI is increasingly automating complex tasks, making operations faster and cheaper.

Anthropic detailed several cases of governments using Claude to surveil people.

Anthropic on Thursday (Sep 10) said it had disrupted several alleged malicious uses of its Claude models over the past eight months, including a suspected Russia-linked cyber…