In September 2025, Anthropic’s threat intelligence team detected something unprecedented. A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, which the company designated GTG-1002, had manipulated Claude Code into attempting infiltration of roughly thirty global targets spanning major technology companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers, and government agencies. The AI executed 80 to 90 per cent of the campaign autonomously, with human operators intervening at perhaps four to six critical decision points per intrusion. At peak operation, the system generated thousands of requests per second. This was attack velocity that human hackers could never match.
The Collapse Equation
