AI hacking incidents and news
A sourced registry of real attacks in which AI was the weapon, the target or the way in, and the AI security news behind them. Every record links to the documents that confirm it.
- Incidents in the registry
- 3
- Confirmed by a primary document (E1)
- 3
- Verified losses
- None yetNo record here has a verified loss figure
- Latest disclosure
- 2025
Latest incidents
Newest by date of occurrence.
| Record | Occurred | Incident | AI role | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AHL-2025-0001 | Sep 2025 | GTG-1002: Claude Code used to run a state espionage campaign | Weapon | 4 |
| AHL-2025-0003 | 24 Aug 2025 to 27 Aug 2025 | s1ngularity: hijacked Nx packages made AI CLIs hunt secrets | Weapon | 2 |
| AHL-2025-0002 | 2025 | GTG-2002: Claude Code used for data theft and extortion | Weapon | 3 |
Latest news
- FBI: FaceStealer's $400M thefts lean on real webcam videoAn FBI alert says North Korean hackers stole over $400 million via fake Zoom and Teams calls built mostly on stolen webcam video; deepfakes are a newer add-on.
- Anthropic: prompt injection exposed an AI vendor’s API keysAnthropic says a Russian-speaking group injected instructions into an AI vendor’s evaluation sandbox, took its API keys, then targeted about 30 AI firms.
- ARTEX: three reports tie an AI pentest tool to intrusionsCrowdStrike and Microsoft describe three groups using ARTEX, an open-source multi-agent pentest framework, against banks, ministries and cloud tenants.
By attack type
Bars share one scale. A type gets its own page from three incidents.
AI as the weapon
- AI-orchestrated intrusion 2
- AI malware 1
- AI ransomware 1
By AI vendor: Claude
Incidents by month
By month of occurrence, not of disclosure. Records dated only by year are not shown.
Show as table
| Month | Incidents |
|---|---|
| Nov 2026 | 0 |
| Oct 2026 | 0 |
| Sep 2026 | 0 |
| Aug 2026 | 0 |
| Jul 2026 | 0 |
| Jun 2026 | 0 |
| May 2026 | 0 |
| Apr 2026 | 0 |
| Mar 2026 | 0 |
| Feb 2026 | 0 |
| Jan 2026 | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 0 |
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