Hi All
Right now, Anthropic is all over the news for exposing what it calls the first largely AI-orchestrated cyber-espionage campaign: a suspected Chinese state-sponsored group, GTG-1002, hijacking Claude Code as an “agentic” operator to execute most stages of the intrusion across about thirty targets worldwide.
For many people, this is the moment the alarm bell finally becomes audible. For me, it’s the moment a warning I’ve been giving in public since 2017 moved from theory into the news cycle.
Ahead of the curve
Back in October 2017, on a panel at IP Expo in London reported under the headline “Cyber security experts discuss their biggest fears: AI, autonomous weapons, vehicles and IoT appliances,” I talked about AI as “ripe for innovation in the security and criminal landscape.” On that stage, I argued that we were already living in something uncomfortably close to Skynet and said, quite bluntly, that I had no doubt attackers would start using AI to build autonomous attack machinery online as well as physical autonomous weaponry. At the time, my thoughts were still in embryonic form. To tell you the truth, I only articulated them for the first time when I was asked, on stage, the classic question: “What keeps you up at night?”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-built-kill-chain-humans-ai-didnt-get-memo-rik-ferguson-hy2jf/
Regards
Caute_Cautim
