Views on AI & the Anthropic Report
Brief
There's been a lot of chatter over the use of AI in various fields, and because it's my professional focus, I'm most interested in how it's used in cybersecurity. Now, that doesn't mean that I'm not aware of how it's used... or more appropriately, misused... in other fields, as well.
For example, how it's been misused in the legal field has been around for more than 2 years now, and just last year, we saw the term "AI slop" be adopted in the software dev/cybersecurity field. Something we also saw in 2025 was the release of the Anthropic report regarding how AI was used by threat actors, in a cyber espionage campaign.
The report is 14 pages long, with the title page, table of contents, and a 2-pg Executive Summary; the contents of the report itself starts on pg 6. The "TL;DR" of the report, if you need it, is that nation-state threat actors used Claude to target 30 organizations, and ".