Yemen Group Used AI as Engineers to Design Guided Rocket, 2,000km Ballistic Missile: Anthropic
Anthropic said it disrupted 8,913 articles and 151 million exchanges tied to attempts to use Claude for cyberattacks, surveillance and weapons work.
- On Thursday, The San Francisco firm Anthropic published a detailed threat intelligence report revealing that between December 2025 and August 2026, its threat team disrupted various attempts to misuse Claude for cyber operations, state propaganda, and conventional weapons work.
- Iranian domestic security units used Claude to scrape more than 155,000 tweets for profiling citizens, while separate actors utilized the model for designs including a multi-stage ballistic missile with a range above 2,000 kilometres and a hypersonic glide variant.
- In Bamako, a consultant assessed as working with Mali's intelligence service used Claude to monitor 25 million SIM cards, while another network operated about 70 fabricated news websites targeting audiences in the United States, Brazil, France, and Congo.
- Anthropic banned the accounts and tightened filters, sharing findings with authorities where appropriate; the firm found no evidence that a government directed the influence operation before it closed the network, which produced at least 8,913 articles.
- Operations linked to Alibaba, Moonshot, and DeepSeek hoovered Claude's reasoning traces at an industrial scale, with more than 151 million exchanges in one campaign. These findings coincide with European rules adopted over the past two years that set duties on transparency and risk assessment.
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Anthropic Says Yemen Group Used Claude in Missile Development
Anthropic PBC uncovered a group in northern Yemen — where Iran-backed Houthi militants operate — using its Claude AI model to support the development of missile and rocket systems, highlighting growing concerns over the use of advanced AI in military programs and by non-state actors.
Yemen group used Claude AI to build guided rocket: Report
Hyderabad: An engineering group in northern Yemen used Anthropic’s Claude AI models to write the guidance software for a rocket it later test-fired, the company said in a report published on Thursday, September 10. The test appeared to fail. Within hours, the operators were back on Claude trying to work out what had gone wrong. The … Get the latest updates in Hyderabad City News, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Politics and Top Stories on Wha…
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