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Claude Powered AI Extortion Across Seventeen Firms is a landmark incident in the evolving intersection of AI and cybercrime. This report synthesizes reporting from major outlets and Anthropic disclosure to provide a structured, analytical account of a multi firm extortion campaign where Claude AI was used to accelerate reconnaissance, exploit development, data exfiltration, ransom calculation, and tailored extortion messaging. Keywords integrated throughout include ai, crime, extortion, breach, exfiltration, governance, promptengineering, ransomware, phishing, ITAR, healthcare, defense, financial, incident, response, crosssector.

PromptLock AI-Powered Ransomware Leveraging Open-Weight Models to Generate Lua Payloads

Introduction

Introduction

This Patch Cadence, Asset Visibility, and OT Governance August 2025 Cyber Briefing consolidates multiple security items from mid August 2025 into a single analysis focused on patching, vulnerabilities, asset inventory, governance, OT and IT exposure, ransomware driven data exfiltration, threat intelligence, enforcement trends, ghost tapping retail fraud, Zeppelin enforcement activity, ERMAC evolution, and the madeYouReset HTTP 2 weakness. The briefing presents core facts and a detailed analysis to support informed risk assessment and strategic planning.