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AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers

Managing Editor · Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM · 1 min read

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Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.

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