Anthropic's threat report shows the IRGC and the Houthis weaponized Claude for weapons development,

Anthropic's threat report shows the IRGC and the Houthis weaponized Claude for weapons development, espionage, and influence ops.

🚨 Houthis:
• Used Claude Code to build guidance/nav/control software for weapons instead of hiring engineers
• Ran 3 parallel programs: a guided rocket w/ phone-class flight computer + homing guidance; a multi-stage ballistic missile targeting 2,000+ km range; an "R2000" line incl. a hypersonic glide vehicle
• Tried to hide the weapons purpose from Anthropic and offending accounts were ultimately banmed.

🚨 Islamic regime (surveillance targeting Jews & Israelis):
• Built an automated OSINT "identity-profiling harness" scraping the public internet to compile intelligence-style dossiers on hundreds of individuals in Israel and the Jewish diaspora
• Targeted Israeli government officials, private citizens, and organizations tied to Jewish communities outside Israel feeding an existing target list
• A separate Iran-nexus actor built targeting handbooks on U.S. naval forces (personnel, ship/aircraft IDs, satellite imagery)

🚨 Islamic regime ("soft war" propaganda, GTG-34001, ICCO/Khorasan Razavi/Bina Observatory):
• Built doctrine manuals, personas, target databases under the "Jihad al-Tabyin" mandate
• Impersonated an IRGC spokesperson; faked citations to CSIS, Brookings, RAND during the 2026 US-Israel-Iran war
• Targeted the Baha'i minority and Iranian opposition figures; drafted Supreme Leader funeral logistics uploading documents and the full plan to Claude.

(Emily Schrader on X)