AI agents now commit and conceal cybercrimes on their own
For several years now, AI has been showing up in fraud as an accelerant. It drafted phishing emails, polished social engineering scripts, helped attackers move faster. The human operator still sat close to every meaningful step.
But that distance is shrinking really fast. In September 2025, Anthropic’s Claude Code was used in a cyber-espionage campaign when AI handled 80 to 90% of tactical operations across roughly 30 targets.
A few months later, reporting on the Mexican government breach described a jailbroken Claude Code setup that Gambit Security said stole more than 150GB of data and exposed roughly 195 million identities.
That’s the real break with the past. Now we are not looking at AI as a helper inside a criminal workflow, but as confronting systems that can carry out large parts of the workflow by themselves.
Cybercrime has changed its shape
Once an agent has tools, context, and permission, cybercrime...
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