After reading through the Anthropic threat intel report, you should read it too.
One of the best free reports I have read in a long time, actually, was it written by Claude Fable… I don’t know?
Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber…
www.anthropic.com
It didn’t scare the crap out of me; it confirmed my already jaded suspicions.
The nature of who can carry out sophisticated cyber attacks has fundamentally changed, but not the attacks themselves.
The report’s core finding is that sophistication has stopped being a reliable signal of who is behind an operation, as AI has collapsed the gap between well-resourced state actors and lone wolf individuals.
A hacktivist with stolen API keys, a financially motivated dark crew, and a state-nexus espionage operator all used the same playbook: agentic AI bots running multi-victim campaigns that previously required entire teams.
I get a real sense that we are in a “deep situation” caused by a very small percentile of the population using the tools made by teams that have way too much VC fun money and are not really aware of who is using their tools; the age of agentic bots is much further along than anyone can conceive.
The oroborous of bot slop continues. It’s going to be a great ride for cybersecurity, though, 1000x the problems to solve.
And the govts are once again asleep at the wheel, too worried about GDP numbers and the other 100 calamities they caused this week instead of focusing on secure spaces, quality infrastructure, education, and medicine.
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[ 6.7 ms ] story [ 21.1 ms ] threadOne of the best free reports I have read in a long time, actually, was it written by Claude Fable… I don’t know?
Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber… www.anthropic.com
It didn’t scare the crap out of me; it confirmed my already jaded suspicions.
The nature of who can carry out sophisticated cyber attacks has fundamentally changed, but not the attacks themselves.
The report’s core finding is that sophistication has stopped being a reliable signal of who is behind an operation, as AI has collapsed the gap between well-resourced state actors and lone wolf individuals.
A hacktivist with stolen API keys, a financially motivated dark crew, and a state-nexus espionage operator all used the same playbook: agentic AI bots running multi-victim campaigns that previously required entire teams.
I get a real sense that we are in a “deep situation” caused by a very small percentile of the population using the tools made by teams that have way too much VC fun money and are not really aware of who is using their tools; the age of agentic bots is much further along than anyone can conceive.
The oroborous of bot slop continues. It’s going to be a great ride for cybersecurity, though, 1000x the problems to solve.
And the govts are once again asleep at the wheel, too worried about GDP numbers and the other 100 calamities they caused this week instead of focusing on secure spaces, quality infrastructure, education, and medicine.