By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Suspected Chinese hackers impersonated an Anthropic employee and ex-US officials in an espionage campaign aimed at gaining insights into American AI developments, a US cybersecurity firm said Thursday.
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China-linked hackers impersonated US AI insiders as global race heats up
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Chinese hackers impersonated AI experts, government official to try to get email passwords: report
Proofpoint watched TA419 regularly attempt to steal passwords from people working for U.S. or Japanese think tanks, defense contractors, universities and law firms, according to the report.
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Suspected Chinese hackers impersonated an Anthropic employee and ex-US officials in an espionage campaign aimed at gaining insights into American AI developments, a US cybersecurity firm said Thursday.
A cybersecurity firm called Proofpoint issued a report on Thursday that provided evidence of Chinese hackers attempting to steal emails from artificial intelligence (A.I.) experts at American and Japanese universities and research organizations.
