Hacker used AI to automate an 'unprecedented' cybercrime spree, Anthropic says

And this is why local run models are absolutely necessary. Sure Claude is better than whatever you can run locally, but to avoid being eavesdropped on every keystroke, just buy older enterprise server with enough compute for 3k USD and run similar model there.

There's a part I didn't understand. How did the model know which companies are vulnerable to attack? I get the part where the LLM was used to analyze documents and create "malicious" software but the biggest missing step seems to be the first one. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but usually that's either targeted at a specific company or you do a port scan on IP ranges to find any target and proceed from there.

Good on Anthropic for disclosing this and leading the way ethically. I could see other companies trying to keep this buried.