【Hackers Use Anthropic AI Tools to Launch Ransom Attacks】Golden Finance Reports that artificial intelligence company Anthropic has stated that hackers used Anthropic's technology to carry out a large-scale cybercrime operation, impacting at least 17 institutions. This is an 'unprecedented' case of attackers weaponizing commercial AI tools on a large scale. According to the Anthropic report, the hacker used Anthropic's proxy coding tool Claude Code to launch data theft and ransom attacks against government, healthcare, emergency services, and religious institutions in the past month, leading to the leakage of medical data, financial information, and other sensitive records. Ransom demands ranged from $75,000 to $500,000, payable in cryptocurrency.