exfiltrate

They used Claude to "make both tactical and strategic decisions, such as deciding which data to exfiltrate, and how to craft psychologically targeted extortion demands".

But, he added, that finding could point to a broader campaign to "exfiltrate and farm data over the long term", in order to conduct sabotage operations in the future.

“We’re getting information about their cyber attacks, their efforts to exfiltrate information, their efforts to export our military information.”

“The hacker needs to do recon, to get into the network, to ensure they can get back in, to gain access to other areas of the network, to exfiltrate data, etc., etc. All of these steps require them doing certain things — and those things can be detected if you’re looking for them.”

“These actors take advantage of simple passwords, unpatched systems, and unsuspecting employees to gain initial access before moving laterally through the network to establish persistence and exfiltrate data.”