The Deep View: Hackers, enterprises go head-to-head with AI

Posted on November 17, 2025 by michelleclarke2015
 
 CYBERSECURITY Hackers, enterprises go head-to-head with AI

AI-powered cyberattacks are getting stronger. 

On Thursday, Anthropic said it disrupted the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign, involving agentic capabilities that go beyond just advising on attacks, to executing them autonomously. Anthropic claims “with high confidence” that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group that manipulated Claude Code to attempt to infiltrate thirty global targets. The targets include large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers and government agencies.

Anthropic tracked the severity of the operations, banned associated accounts and notified authorities. “We’re continually working on new methods of investigating and detecting large-scale, distributed attacks like this one,” Anthropic said in the report. The incident is just one case exemplifying that hackers are getting far smarter at using AI.

Data from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group published in early November showed a shift in hackers’ AI strategies, leaning towards AI-powered malware and models being abused across the attack lifecycle.

While the potential for bad actors to leverage this tech was clear from the start, “the speed at which it materialized is unsettling,” Adam Arellano, Field CTO at Harness.io, told The Deep View. And larger, coordinated attacks may inspire others, Arellano said. “More and more of the smaller groups and even individuals will start to figure out how to use (LLMs) as well, increasing access to these types of attacks.” But that doesn’t mean that enterprises are empty-handed, Eric O’Neill, former FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence operative and founder of The Georgetown Group and Nexasure AI, told The Deep View. 

Plenty of organizations are deploying AI for counterintelligence, anomaly detection, rapid incident response and resilience in data integrity, he said. But as hackers become more sophisticated at a rapid clip, speed, adaptability and resilience are “the only winning strategies.”“The battle has escalated into something out of the 1980s film Tron: AI vs. AI, dueling across digital landscapes for control of the currency of our lives—data,” said O’Neill.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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