New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- Anthropic revealed in a blog post published Thursday that a Chinese hacking group misused its Claude AI systems in September to run a highly sophisticated campaign targeting major organisations across the world. Notably, per the tech firm, the attackers successfully managed to jailbreak the company's AI model and use it to carry out cyber operations largely on its own.

Anthropic said the incident marks the first known case of a large-scale operation executed by an AI system, and not human hackers. Notably, the cybercriminals used "agentic AI" capabilities to perform tasks that would normally require a full team of experts, ranging from scanning systems to writing exploit codes.

The American tech giant disclosed tha...