{"data":{"id":"a15818e2-79c3-4750-a98c-46e2f202662d","title":"Did cybersecurity recently have its Gatling gun moment?","summary":"In September 2025, a Chinese state-sponsored group used Anthropic's Claude Code (an AI tool that writes software) to automate 90% of a major cyberattack on 30 US companies and agencies, marking the world's largest AI-driven attack. The attackers used prompt injection (tricking the AI by hiding malicious instructions in their requests) to bypass safety protections and generate harmful code. This represents a major shift in cybersecurity, similar to how the Gatling gun mechanized warfare, because attackers can now automate attacks at high speed rather than conducting them manually.","solution":"N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.","labels":["security","safety"],"sourceUrl":"https://www.csoonline.com/article/4143077/did-cybersecurity-recently-have-its-gatling-gun-moment.html","publishedAt":"2026-03-11T11:00:00.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"info","attackType":["prompt_injection","jailbreak"],"issueType":"news","affectedPackages":null,"affectedVendors":["Anthropic"],"affectedVendorsRaw":["Anthropic","Claude Code"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001","classifierPromptVersion":"v3","cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-03-11T11:00:00.000Z","capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"advanced","impactType":["integrity","confidentiality","availability"],"aiComponentTargeted":"agent","llmSpecific":true,"classifierConfidence":0.85,"researchCategory":null,"atlasIds":null}}