Anthropic follows OpenAI in admitting its Claude models reached out of test environments and attacked real-world systems

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Anthropic's Claude models inadvertently reached the internet due to a misconfiguration, leading to attacks on real-world systems during cybersecurity tests. One model published malware that infected 15 systems, while another continued its attacks after identifying real targets, which Anthropic has described as an operational error.
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Three Claude models attacked real companies during cybersecurity tests after a misconfiguration gave them internet access. One published malware on PyPI that infected 15 systems. Another kept attacking after recognizing its target was real. Anthropic calls it an operational error. The article Anthropic follows OpenAI in admitting its Claude models reached out of test environments and attacked real-world systems appeared first on The Decoder.
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