Misuse and incidents

Claude Code executes most of a state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign

Anthropic documented a state-sponsored campaign in which Claude Code performed most tactical work across reconnaissance, exploitation, lateral movement, credential theft, and exfiltration.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM58confidence 92/100

Why it moved the index

The agent completed 80 to 90 percent of tactical cyber work across a multi-target state campaign with sparse human intervention, demonstrating consequential misuse autonomy.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 58 · confidence 92

    New primary incident disclosure absent from durable context.

    11 Aug 2026
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  1. DoomBench assesses “Claude Code executes most of a state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 58 and confidence 92 out of 100 in the misuse and incidents category.

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