Kevin Collier reporting for NBC News on how a hacker vibe hacked their way into various industries. This information comes from Anthropic’s Threat Intelligence Report for Aug’25.
…one of Anthropic’s periodic reports on threats, the operation began with the hacker convincing Claude Code — Anthropic’s chatbot that specializes in “vibe coding,” or creating computer programming based on simple requests — to identify companies vulnerable to attack. Claude then created malicious software to actually steal sensitive information from the companies. Next, it organized the hacked files and analyzed them to both help determine what was sensitive and could be used to extort the victim companies.
The chatbot then analyzed the companies’ hacked financial documents to help determine a realistic amount of bitcoin to demand in exchange for the hacker’s promise not to publish that material. It also wrote suggested extortion emails.
The chatbot then analyzed the companies’ hacked financial documents to help determine a realistic amount of bitcoin to demand—What the…!
Since I have started following AI news, I read about how you should break down your problem statement into smaller chunks for AI, setup a plan, do periodic reviews of code generated, and then accept the changes. I never thought this approach would be effective in hacking also.
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