Crims laud Claude to plant ransomware and fake IT expertise

comment Anthropic, a maker of AI tools, says that AI tools are now commonly used to commit cybercrime and facilitate remote worker fraud.

By saying so in a 25-page report [PDF], the biz aims to reassure the public and private sector that it can mitigate the harmful use of its technology with "sophisticated safety and security measures."

After all, who wants to be regulated as a dangerous weapon?

Yet these measures, specifically account bans, amount to the same ineffective game of cybersecurity Whack-a-Mole that has failed to curb abuses at Google, Meta, or any number of other large online platforms.

The company is developing custom machine-learning classifiers to catch specific attack patterns, which sounds more promising. However, defensive measures of this sort simply encourage attackers to adapt.

Anthropic only mentions one successful instance of prevention in its report. "We successfully prevented a sophisticated North Korean [DPRK] threat actor from establishing ...