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AI firm says its technology weaponised by hackers

A report from the makers of Claude said the AI tool had been used to commit cyber-attacks and fraud.

The firm said its AI was used to help write code which carried out cyber-attacks, while in another case, North Korean scammers used Claude to fraudulently get remote jobs at top US companies. Often, North Korean workers are "are sealed off from the outside world, culturally and technically, making it harder for them to pull off this subterfuge," said Geoff White, co-presenter of the BBC podcast The Lazarus Heist. "Organisations need to understand that AI is a repository of confidential information that requires protection, just like any other form of storage system," said Nivedita Murthy, senior security consultant at cyber-security firm Black Duck.

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