**Adversaries Using Claude AI to Target Americans and Develop Missiles**

> A new report from Anthropic presents a stark picture of how malign actors are using commercially available U.S. AI services despite safeguards. News & Features Around The Globe Indo-Pacific China Adversaries Using Claude AI To Target Americans And Develop Missiles Is A Sign Of What&\#8217;s To Come A new report from Anthropic presents a stark picture of how malign actors are using commercially available U.S. AI services despite safeguards. By Joseph Trevithick Published Sep 11, 2026 6:24 PM EDT 0 Add TWZ (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Houthi-controlled media The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Email address Sign Up Thank you! Terms of Service and Privacy Policy Earlier this year, an Iran-linked actor used Anthropic&\#8217;s Claude artificial intelligence model to scrape and analyze data with the aim of helping target U.S. naval forces in the Middle East . A group in Yemen – very likely Iranian-backed Houthi militants – also used Claude to assist with work on guidance systems for ballistic and hypersonic missiles. These are just some of the revelations about how adversaries and other malign actors have been using one of the premier pieces of AI software being developed in the United States that were contained in a new report Anthropic released late yesterday . The 154-page document also details instances where Claude was used directly and indirectly to support intelligence gathering and surveillance, cyberattacks, influence operations, and even worrisome biological research over the past eight months. In addition to Iran and Yemen, the human actors behind these activities were based in Russia, China, and a host of other countries. Anthropic has shared details about what it calls the &\#8220;misuse&\#8221; of its models in the past , but describes the new report as its &\#8220;most detailed&\#8221; to date. The company has clearly been cataloging these case studies, and has assigned each one a control number. Though the entire contents of the report are cause for concern, the explicit attempt to use Claude to target American forces, as well as to develop new higher-end missiles and other military technology, are particular standouts and signs of what&\#8217;s to come, as we will highlight below. GTG-30005: Military reconnaissance GTG-30005 is the case study dealing with the targeting of U.S. naval forces, and the summary is as follows: &\#8220;In another investigation, we identified and disrupted an Iran-nexus threat actor that used Claude to collect and analyze publicly accessible data to develop targeting recommendations against US naval forces in the region. The threat actor used Claude to compile targeting handbooks, through a Python pipeline the threat actor built with Claude’s assistance, to identify and track naval positions based on open-source information. The compiled material included a roster of US personnel scraped from captions on public military photographs; publicly accessible ship and aircraft transponder identifiers; commercial satellite-imagery query scripts; and an inventory of public websites that exposed US naval movements. The threat actor also directed Claude to compile vulnerability research on shipboard systems, cataloging known CVEs in maritime VSAT terminals, Cisco communications equipment, and industrial control products.&\#8221; &\#8220;We banned the actor’s account, developed detections to reduce the risk of future misuse, and shared threat intelligence wi...

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- **发布时间**：2026-09-12 06:36（北京时间）
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