Iranian Security Used Claude to Build Surveillance Firefox Extension, Profiling 6,388 People
ns123abc · x · 2026-09-11
From Anthropic's threat report: Iranian domestic security built a Firefox extension disguised as a prayer-times app that actually harvests identities, profiling 6,388 Iranians this year. Also cited: a single Claude subscriber in Bamako built a mass surveillance platform for Mali's intelligence covering 25 million SIM cards across all three carriers — banning the subscription doesn't work since the system now runs on local AI.
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