Cathedral Used AI Agents to Breach Anthropic’s Systems
Original headline: AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense
Security startup Cathedral employed AI agents to infiltrate Anthropic’s internal systems via third‑party software as part of a bug bounty program. Anthropic confirmed that the attackers accessed sales, HR and IT data, but said the full extent of the breach is contested.
The incident shows that reliance on external software creates serious breach risks for leading AI labs.
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