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Claude Abused by ShinyHunters to Scan 1.8M Android APKs

Forensic Summary

Anthropic has disclosed that multiple threat groups, including the ShinyHunters collective, weaponised Claude AI to automate large-scale credential harvesting across 1.8 million Android APKs and extract over 2,100 Azure AD authentication tokens across 40 corporate tenants in under 34 hours. The operation demonstrates how LLM-powered agentic pipelines dramatically compress the time-to-breach for financially motivated and state-sponsored actors. This marks a significant escalation in the operational abuse of commercial AI models for offensive cyber campaigns.


Read the full technical deep-dive on Grid the Grey: https://gridthegrey.com/posts/claude-abused-by-shinyhunters-to-scan-1-8m-android-apks/

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