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Anthropic Says Russian, Chinese Threat Actors Used Its AI Model Claude For Malicious Activity

Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,

Anthropic said on Sept. 10 that it had disrupted malicious campaigns involving the use of its artificial intelligence model Claude, including operations allegedly linked to threat actors in China and Russia.

The company said the threat actors include suspected state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, commercial spyware vendors, state propaganda institutions, and politically motivated individuals.

According to its report, most of the cyber operations detected between December 2025 and August 2026 were enabled by AI through direct execution or orchestration. Humans remained involved in selecting targets and reviewing exfiltration, it stated.

"The use of AI went beyond simple questions and responses from a chatbot but rather involved the use of multi-agent frameworks executing reconnaissance, exploitation, and data exfiltration," Anthropic said.

Among the threat actors named by the company was a group linked to Russia-based Midnight Blizzard. Anthropic alleged that the group used AI to attack military intelligence targets in Ukraine and Europe, as well as diplomatic and defense organizations and individuals connected to U.S. foreign policy.

Anthropic said it also disrupted distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including operators allegedly linked to Alibaba, DeepSeek, Xiaomi, and Moonshot.

The company defined distillation as "an industrial-scale, covert campaign" aimed at illegally extracting the capabilities of an AI model and replicating them in another model.

Operators linked to Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce platform, carried out the largest distillation attack to advance the reasoning capabilities of Alibaba's models, generating more than 151 million exchanges between May and July 2026, the report found. The activity peaked at nearly 3 million exchanges per day launched from over 3,500 accounts that Anthropic deemed fraudulent.

Anthropic also alleged that Chinese AI company Moonshot secretly forwarded customer requests to Claude and then displayed the resulting responses to users as if they were generated by its AI model Kimi.

In one instance, Moonshot allegedly routed nearly 300,000 customer requests to Anthropic's model over a 10-day period using a proxy service network of 5,380 fraudulent accounts, most of which appeared to be located in Singapore and Japan, according to the report.

"Our investigation also revealed that user queries that Moonshot rerouted to Claude included sensitive information about various Moonshot customers," Anthropic said.

"We do not know if Moonshot notified their customers that their requests were being rerouted to Anthropic and exposed to a third party."

The report also identified new categories of threat actors misusing Claude, including those who seek to develop "software for conventional weapons, including firearms, missiles, armed drones, bombs, and other munitions."

Anthropic said it disrupted a "guided weapons engineering cell" operating three weapons development programs in northern Yemen that used Claude "to develop the guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) software that steers and stabilizes a flying vehicle."

According to the report, the threat actors allegedly test-fired a guided rocket but failed, prompting them to seek guidance from Claude to identify the cause of the failure.

Among other newly categorized threat actors was a China-based threat actor that used Claude to advance three parallel projects on "an anti-torpedo weapons system."

Anthropic also identified alleged Russia-based freelance threat actors who sought to build a "full-stack autonomous first-person-view kamikaze drone swarm" and another Russia-based actor who used Claude to research and draft procurement documents for goods likely intended for the Russian government and defense industry customers.

The company said it would continue to strengthen its safeguards and work with partners to prevent misuse of its AI model.

"In each case, we disrupted the activity, used what we learned to strengthen our safeguards, and shared intelligence with authorities and industry partners, where appropriate," it stated.

Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2026 - 13:35

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US, Saudi Officials Confirm Kingdom's East-West Pipeline Attacked By Drones Out Of Iraq Summary

• Saudi oil pipeline attacked: US officials confirmed strikes on Saudi pumping stations, with drones likely launch from Iraq.
• Houthis expand in Yemen: Houthi forces are gaining control along the Red Sea coast, threatening key shipping routes.
• Oil and diesel prices rising: Russia's damaged refining capacity & shipping disruptions are also tightening fuel markets.
• Stagflation risk grows: Higher energy and shipping costs could push inflation higher while weakening global economic growth.

//--> //--> //--> Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by November 30?
Yes 13% · No 88%
View full market & trade on Polymarket US Officials Confirm East-West Pipeline Was Attacked, Saudis Blame Iraqi militants

Open source satellite imaging has shown the crucial 'Hormuz bypass' East-West oil pipeline that cuts straight across Saudi Arabia has been on fire. A some 80km to 100km giant smoke plume has been observed. The damaged section is said to be located near the town of Al Mesba'ah.

• SAUDI BLAMES OIL PIPELINE ATTACK ON DRONES FROM IRAQ: AP
• IRAQ PM ORDERS PROBE INTO ATTACKS ON SAUDI ARABIA: STATEMENT

Amid speculation that this is probably the result of a major Houthi attack out of Yemen, CNN in a new Friday report cites two US officials who've given confirmation that the pipeline was struck by projectiles on Thursday. Iraq was named as possible attack origin point. According to the report:

An early analysis found that pump stations, which are located next to the pipeline itself, were hit, one of the US officials said. A satellite image taken Friday appears to show extensive fire damage at one pumping station, and an image of a different pumping station, taken Thursday, showed a small fire sending up plumes of thick, black smoke.

It could have been the result of a drone attack by paramilitaries operating out of Iraq. "It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the strikes or if sections of the pipeline itself were damaged but one of the officials said it was struck by drones originating from Iraq," CNN reports. "It was also not immediately clear how long it would take to repair the damage, sources said."

On Sept. 10, via EUMETSAT/CNN

News on Saudi oil has gone from worse to worse, as in Yemen the Houthis have reportedly taken over the entire Red Sea coastline. They have renewed the threats to attack all Saudi (as well as Israeli) shipping, but have also sought to assure transit is 'safe' for other international vessels.

The pumping station struck yesterday is located near the town of Al Mesba'ah.

According to one of the U.S. officials who spoke to CNN, the drones that struck the pumping station along Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline originated from Iraq. It remains unclear whether the pipeline… pic.twitter.com/puOWM5VRlX

— OilPrice.com (@OilandEnergy) September 11, 2026 Threats Rapidly Converge

Three converging threats to watch are intensifying pressure on global energy markets: damage to Russian refining capacity, ongoing disruption at Hormuz, and new, expanding Houthi threats to Red Sea shipping. The resulting physical market squeeze extends well beyond the Gulf area. Record-high diesel prices in the US and other markets, such as China's return to buying crude, raise the risk that oil markets will remain exceptionally tight into the Northern Hemisphere winter. 

What we know so far is that the Russia-Ukraine war has knocked out a whole bunch of refining capacity and halted exports of critical fuels from Russia. The Gulf area has seen an escalation in fighting this week as the Hormuz chokepoint remains open with tanker transits but still limited and far from pre-war levels. 

Couple this all with the chokepoint madness still being disrupted and new developments overnight: Iran-backed Houthi forces advanced toward a strategic port near the southern entrance to the Red Sea, threatening to tighten control on a second critical shipping corridor. 

Houthis Take Yemen's Red Sea Coast

Bloomberg reported that Houthi rebels have gained ground around Mokha, with some geopolitical analysts reporting that the Yemeni port city has fallen. 

🇾🇪 Total collapse: The entire coastline from Dhubab to Mayyun island was abandoned. Mayyun, Duhbab and Murd now controlled by Houthi forces as of September 11

A major global event. The Houthis now have the capacity to block ships now more than ever. Bab Al Mandab at their mercy https://t.co/ycUtzCcPq8 pic.twitter.com/EfVc5GdbZv

— The Cube (@war_cube) September 11, 2026

Its fall would give the Houthis another coastal stronghold alongside Hodeida and the ability to control more of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, suggesting commercial traffic could begin to drop and transits would be rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope, increasing shipping time and freight costs. 

Alternative Route: Cape of Good Hope

On top of this, China has returned to global oil markets, and ex-Goldman Commodities head Jeff Currie warned Thursday that this is the real driver of soaring crude prices. 

Saudi Key East-West Pipeline on Fire

Also overnight, Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline appears to have been struck by Houthi forces, which the pipeline served as an oil escape route, effectively bypassing the Hormuz chokepoint to the Red Sea.

Andrew Farrand, a political-risk analyst at Horizon Engage, described the rapid Houthi advance as a major setback for Saudi efforts in Yemen, warning that it could bring the Houthis closer to territory overlooking the waterway's narrowest section. 

Simultaneous disruption of Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Strait of Hormuz creates a two-sided squeeze: less energy can leave the Gulf, while tankers that can move face longer, more expensive journeys. It also threatens Saudi Arabia's Red Sea terminal.

Beyond Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, these are the main straits to watch: 

Global Maritime Chokepoints

Where the routes narrow

What could interrupt commercial traffic

Stage Set for Stagflationary Squeeze?

The twin disruptions threaten shipping corridors that carried roughly a quarter of global seaborne oil trade through Hormuz and through Bab el-Mandeb, while jeopardizing a Red Sea shipping route central to trade between Asia and Europe and risking ignition of a stagflationary squeeze as diesel prices soar to new highs that eventually feed into supply chains, freight costs, and ultimately, at a lag, higher prices on store shelves. 

Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2026 - 12:53

Now They Think Babies Can Be Racist...

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

A woman sat in front of a camera this week and told the internet she had witnessed a "racist baby"...

Not a joke account. Not a sketch. A straight-faced lecture about an infant who looked at someone for a few seconds - and, in her telling, revealed the original sin of race hatred barely out of the womb.

The woman declares that "watching children mirror racist behavior is WILD." She describes a baby staring at her 'friend of colour', the mother looking stricken, and then announces that the child is "literally mimicking" hostility toward "black and brown people."

This retard says she saw a "racist baby"

This person is a legit retard.. this is somehow not a joke.

Unbelievable pic.twitter.com/R5UUfig5AN

— Retard Finder (@IfindRetards) September 10, 2026

She also flashes a 2012 Science Daily headline as if it were a conviction.

This is the new priesthood. A baby looks at a black person and the verdict is racism.

Anyone who has any experience at all with babies knows they stare. At glasses. At beards. At bald heads, bright coats, dogs, ceiling fans, and their own hands. They are cataloguing the world with amazement, not forming a manifesto.

Obviously, she's never had children. Babies also stare at people with glasses if they've never seen a person with glasses, they stare at all kinds of things they've never seen before. It's called learning and it's up to the parents to teach them from then on.

— Dee Dee (@littleDisme) September 10, 2026

The woman in the video treats curiosity as contamination. She reaches for a University of Massachusetts Amherst study from 2012 - "Infants begin to learn about race in the first year" - and reads it as proof that a pre-verbal child is already a bigot.

The paper does not say that. It found that by nine months, babies get better at recognising familiar-looking faces and worse at telling apart unfamiliar ones.

Psychologist Lisa Scott, an author of the work, said the results "suggest that biases in face recognition and perception begin in preverbal infants, well before concepts about race are formed."

Face recognition is not a worldview. A nine-month-old does not have a theory of systemic oppression.

They diagnosed a baby with racism. That's the priesthood now.

— Storm Files (@TheStormFiles) September 10, 2026

Leftwing women hate babies so much, they can't hide it.

— Ames (@VivaLaAmes11) September 10, 2026

This is not an isolated freak-out. It sits inside a wider epidemic of deranged white leftist women.

They police stares, invent motives for infants, and treat ordinary childhood as a moral emergency. These people staff HR departments, classrooms, nurseries and social-work offices. They write the guidance.

They decide which toddler is a "perpetrator." exporting their own neurosis onto the smallest most innocent people in the room.

Her assumptions she has about a babies thoughts on black people are the thoughts she has about black people.

It's a clever way to say you hate black people.

— Mike Mossey (@Mikemossey) September 10, 2026

In fairness, the baby refused to acknowledge his privilege, denounce systemic oppression, or even apologize for it's unconscious bias.

The baby needs Infant Bias Intervention, Diapers, Diversity & Inclusion or Critical Cradle Theory as soon as he finishes the bottle.?

— SUPA DUPA FUPA™ (@TheFupaverse) September 10, 2026

You are a gift and a savior to black people everywhere I don't know what they would do without you

— Trip Pache (@DrSlayyyy) September 10, 2026

pic.twitter.com/Rpfrq2e6xv

— The Vat of Butter (@theVatOfButter) September 10, 2026

The viral clip would be easier to laugh off if governments were not writing the same fantasy into official guidance.

In Wales, childcare workers have been trained under a taxpayer-funded programme - more than £1.3 million via the Welsh Government - to spot "racist incidents" among toddlers and, if staff decide the behaviour could amount to a hate crime, contact police.

The toolkit from Diversity and Anti-Racist Professional Learning (DARPL) at Cardiff Metropolitan University has been circulated to more than 300 nurseries, playgroups and childminders.

Staff are told to audit toys and books for "diversity," discuss skin colour with very young children, and rate their own grasp of "white privilege" on a one-to-five scale. If the incident falls short of a hate crime, workers are advised to offer "age-appropriate learning support opportunities for the perpetrator." If that is "met with resistance," a disciplinary route appears on a flowchart. The "perpetrator" may still be in nappies.

Lucy Marsh, communications officer at the Family Education Trust, asked "Do they want toddlers to have a criminal record?"

Kent Police went one better. A one-year-old girl was logged as a crime suspect after allegedly causing a minor injury to another toddler.

Freedom of Information figures showed 683 children under 10 reported for offences over three years - including six two-year-olds, 11 three-year-olds and 20 four-year-olds.

None can be prosecuted. The age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is 10. Kent County Council cabinet member for children's services, Councillor Paul Webb, called the numbers "not great." Chief Superintendent Rob Marsh said the focus was "safeguarding rather than punishment." The record still exists. A baby is on a crime log.

The contempt is not limited to infants who look at people the wrong way. Wanting people to have children at all has been recast as an extremist project. Politico framed a natalism conference as proof that "the far right is so obsessed with making babies, they just held a whole conference about it."

Reporter Gaby Del Valle treated collapsing fertility as a punchline and smeared those who notice it as plotters of "a total social overhaul."

Meanwhile the CDC recorded a U.S. fertility rate of 1.6 in 2023 against a replacement level of 2.1. A Lancet study put the global rate at 2.23 and warned the world's population will start to fall within decades. Co-author Dr Natalia Bhattacharjee said declining fertility "will completely reconfigure the global economy and the international balance of power." That is biology, not a rally chant.

So the sequence is complete. Have children and you are suspect. The children themselves are suspect. A glance is evidence. A nursery becomes a reporting desk. The state writes "racist" next to a toddler and calls it safeguarding.

A baby is not a political actor. It does not owe a land acknowledgement between feeds. It does not need Critical Cradle Theory. It needs parents who are attached to reality and institutions that stop treating childhood as a crime scene.

Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2026 - 12:45

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