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2026-09-11 Cyber

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1 Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
Over the past eight months, our Threat Intelligence team identified and disrupted operations in which threat actors tried to use Claude for malicious activity. In this report, we share case studies from those operations and describe how malicious use of Claude has evolved since our previous threat reports in March, August, and November 2025. In each case, we disrupted the activity, used what we learned to strengthen our safeguards, and shared intelligence with authorities and industry partners, where appropriate.

This report covers activity we disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven harm areas: cyber operations, influence operations, surveillance, scams and fraud, biological misuse, conventional weapons development, and distillation. Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus models were used. None of the misuse cases involved the use of Claude Fable or Mythos-class models, with the exception of one illicit distillation case.

The cases we share here aren’t typical misuse, but rather examples of the most notable and novel threat activity we’ve identified to date. We’re publishing this work because we believe we have a responsibility to disclose malicious misuse of our services. As models become increasingly capable, their risks will increase, unless AI developers and society’s defenders act to make them safer.

The threat actors covered in this report include suspected state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, commercial spyware vendors, state propaganda institutions, and politically motivated individuals. The cases range from a network of fake dating apps designed to defraud users to surveillance systems built to identify and monitor dissidents.

Sophisticated and persistent threat actors continuously test our safeguards and try to circumvent the technical measures we use to detect and prevent misuse. We’ll continue to evolve our safeguards and coordinate with our partners to improve our ability to detect, disrupt, and prevent future misuse.

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