SN 1082: The Malicious Use of AI - Anthropic's Red Team Report

SN 1082: The Malicious Use of AI - Anthropic's Red Team Report

Author: TWiT June 10, 2026 Duration: 2:37:27

Discover how Anthropic's secretive red team and the MITRE ATT&CK framework are mapping the chilling rise of malicious AI use, revealing cyber threats that now move faster than defenders can respond.

  • Was a U.S. law firm right to pay a $20 million ransom.
  • Could Cisco have yet another SD-WAN 0-day in the wild.
  • Why is it so difficult to author secure PHP code.
  • Teens use "WeedHack" to spy and attack each other.
  • Researchers create the first AI-enabled Internet worm.
  • Google Chrome pops-up "Shop with confidence." What...
  • The discovered and irresponsibly disclosed HTTP/2 Bomb.
  • What Anthropic learns from their past year of Claude abuse: It's bad

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1082-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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