AI Is Handing Hackers Tools That Once Belonged to Elite Attackers

Anthropic found that artificial intelligence (AI) now performs advanced attack tasks on behalf of unsophisticated hackers, work that once required great technical skill, weakening the long-standing link between an attacker’s expertise and the danger they pose.

The conclusion is based on a year-long study of 832 banned accounts. It signals a lower barrier for attacks on crypto infrastructure as…