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In November 2025, Anthropic revealed a cyber espionage campaign dubbed GTG-1002, the first documented case of an AI agent orchestrating real-world intrusions with minimal human input. A Chinese state-sponsored group manipulated Anthropic's Claude Code assistant into executing about 80% of a multi-target hacking campaign autonomously. Instead of merely advising cybercriminals, the AI took control of key steps: reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, credential theft, and data exfiltration across dozens of organizations. The result was an operation running at machine tempo. Claude performed tasks in a fraction of the time a human team would need, even identifying sensitive databases and writing exploits in seconds. Figure 1: The distinct phases of the Claude cyberattack At the peak of the attack, the AI made thousands of requests (often several per second), an onslaught of activity impossible for humans to match. This speed and scale of automation is a game changer: a...

What are Ephemeral Accounts? Corporate audits today, for cyber security insurance or compliance, focus on group memberships to identify who has access to what. This process identifies who is a Domain Admin, Enterprise Admin, Local Administrator, Database Global Admin, Global Admin in Azure, and Root Access in AWS. Accounts with this level of access likely have static privilege. I like to call these accounts game-over accounts. If these accounts are compromised, the company will have a massive issue on its hands.  Other account types lurking in your environment can cause this level of damage. Many DevOps accounts and API keys can also cause this level of damage if compromised. DevOps accounts sometimes fall under the radar outside of the scope of compliance and cybersecurity insurance.  The new Privileged Access Management buzzword among vendors, analysts, and operations teams is Ephemeral Accounts . A common phrase I tend to hear is that we don't have static privileged acc...