ShinyHunters used Claude to exfiltrate 1TB in 34 hours; French agency ran 70 fake-news sites
maier_ak · x · 2026-09-16
From Anthropic's threat briefing: ShinyHunters affiliates used Claude on ten AWS workers to scan 1.8M Android APKs, steal 2,100 Azure AD tokens, and exfiltrate over 1TB of data in 34 hours. Separately, a French agency ran 70 fake-news sites in 20 languages, showing AI can automate influence campaigns—part of the same disclosure that includes the Midnight Blizzard case.
Related event: Anthropic's 154-page threat brief details how hackers weaponized Claude(5 posts)→
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