Home / Sep 13, 2026 / Story
0
#9 The Hacker News general September 11, 2026 at 16:15 UTC

Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Anthropic's threat report identified seven China-based AI labs — including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (Zhipu), and MiniMax — conducting industrial-scale 'distillation attacks' against Claude, using Claude as a teacher model to illicitly train their own competing AI systems. Separately, Anthropic reported that Claude was abused to extract secrets from 1.8 million Android apps, with financially motivated and state-sponsored groups linked to Russia and China implicated. The distillation attacks represent a novel form of AI intellectual property theft with direct implications for AI model security.

Relevance score: 77.0/100

# More from September 13