Chinese hackers allegedly posed as Anthropic employee to plant malware on US AI policy expert
Polymarket · x · 2026-10-05
Polymarket reports that Chinese hackers allegedly impersonated an Anthropic employee, using a fake inquiry about "Military Integration of Claude" as bait to deliver malware to a U.S. AI policy expert. The social-engineering attack weaponizes hot industry topics to target the AI policy community — a reminder to be wary of phishing that masquerades as vendor staff.
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