AI carried out 80–90% of a state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign

November 13, 2025

In November 2025, Anthropic disclosed a state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign in which an AI agent carried out an estimated 80–90% of the work, with people stepping in only occasionally. About thirty organizations were targeted.

Work that once took a skilled team weeks can now run in hours. For an application that is slow to change, the window between a security finding and an exploit is shorter than it was.

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