Comment by CGMthrowaway

So basically, Chinese state-backed hackers hijacked Claude Code to run some of the first AI-orchestrated cyber-espionage, using autonomous agents to infiltrate ~30 large tech companies, banks, chemical manufacturers and government agencies.

What's amazing is that AI executed most of the attack autonomously, performing at scale and speed unattainable by human teams - thousands of operations per second. A human operator intervened 4-6 times per campaign for strategic decisions