Weapons, spyware and scams: Anthropic report reveals worldwide AI misuse

Russia: Claude was used to build software intended to power autonomous “kamikaze” drones. The drone swarm was programmed to pick its own targets and crash into them to detonate, without a human making the final call. In their programming, the team repeatedly picked a location in Ukraine’s Donetsk region as their target and used VPNs to circumvent Anthropic’s geographic blocks. The developers claimed to have received funding from Russian government and military research programmes, though Anthropic assessed the group as a small freelance team rather than an official operation. Yemen: A group in northern Yemen used Claude Code to help…