In 2026, AI-Enabled Cyberattacks May Be Commonplace. Are We Ready?
Tech Monitor, Monday, December 29th, 2025
AI-enabled cyberattacks could come as soon as next year. Organisations need to be on their guard against more unorthodox attack vectors.
In a recent report, Anthropic stated that it had thwarted a large-scale AI cyberattack it described as 'highly sophisticated' and 'executed without substantial human intervention.' It was almost an inside job. According to Anthropic, the threat actors had weaponised its Claude Code assistant, manipulating the model to carry out a series of small-scale tasks that, when combined, amounted to a crafty attempt at a machine-driven hack.