The Age of AI Cyberattacks is upon us. The need for individuals and companies to harden their security set ups is greater than it ever has been.

Once open source models, encrypted AI compute and MCP frameworks are mature enough it will be impossible to intervene like Claude did here or even audit the attack in fine detail.

Now is not the time to be complacent. Especially if your company secures people’s bitcoin.

Don’t trust the trusted third parties, move your bitcoin to cold storage.

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I'm still catching up.

How did Claude intervene?

Manually blacklisted the accounts leveraging their models and MCP to wage the attack. They could only do so because they are fully centralized.

Trade offs all the way down…..

I wonder if Claude was used for obfuscation or because it’s better than Chinese models.

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I work in cybersecurity and there’s a lot of people calling out Anthropic for this “report”. It’s mostly marketing fluff. The agents aren’t doing anything unique or even really at a scale that wasn’t previously achievable.

They also provided absolutely zero proof that this was China in any way. Attribution is nearly impossible in the digital world, unless you really mess up.

Take this report with a massive grain of salt.