# How hackers used Claude for missiles, drone swarms, and surveillance, while Chinese labs mined it for training data

> Anthropic has published a threat intelligence report cataloguing eight months of attempts to misuse Claude, and the range is unsettling. According to the company, bad actors tried to enlist the model for work touching on missiles, drone swarm software, and surveillance systems, alongside more conventional cyberattacks. The report also describes Chinese AI labs, including Alibaba's Qwen team, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI, relaying large volumes of requests through Claude or extracting its outputs, apparently to help train or sharpen their own models. That practice, distilling a rival by mining its answers, has become one of the industry's quiet flashpoints. Whether you read it as genuine transparency or as a company shaping the safety narrative ahead of a rumored IPO, the document is a rare, itemized look at how a frontier model actually gets abused in the wild, and at how blurry the line between competitor and adversary has become.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: The Decoder · Published Saturday, September 12, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Anthropic has published a threat intelligence report cataloguing eight months of attempts to misuse Claude, and the range is unsettling. According to the company, bad actors tried to enlist the model for work touching on missiles, drone swarm software, and surveillance systems, alongside more conventional cyberattacks. The report also describes Chinese AI labs, including Alibaba's Qwen team, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI, relaying large volumes of requests through Claude or extracting its outputs, apparently to help train or sharpen their own models. That practice, distilling a rival by mining its answers, has become one of the industry's quiet flashpoints. Whether you read it as genuine transparency or as a company shaping the safety narrative ahead of a rumored IPO, the document is a rare, itemized look at how a frontier model actually gets abused in the wild, and at how blurry the line between competitor and adversary has become.

## Source

[Read the full story at The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com/how-hackers-used-claude-for-missiles-drone-swarms-and-surveillance-while-chinese-labs-mined-it-for-training-data/)

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