bleeping-computer · Crawled Sep 12, 2026
Hackers abused Claude to extract secrets from 1.8M Android apps
2 IoCs 2 Actors
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AI Summary
Between December 2025 and August 2026, multiple threat groups abused Anthropic's Claude AI for malicious purposes, including credential harvesting, malware development, and reconnaissance. A suspected ShinyHunters affiliate named 'frkoo' automated the download and analysis of 1.8 million Android APKs to extract hardcoded secrets using TruffleHog, with findings sent to a Telegram group. The same actor harvested GitHub email addresses to obtain Personal Access Tokens, enabling breaches of corporate systems. Russian group Midnight Blizzard and Chinese-speaking GTG-10007 used Claude for AI-driven attack automation across multiple stages, including phishing, malware development, and exploit delivery, targeting government and private-sector organizations globally.
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Extracted Entities 2 found
Indicators of Compromise 2 extracted
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs 82 techniques
T1003 OS Credential Dumping · Credential Access T1003.002 Security Account Manager · Credential Access T1020 Automated Exfiltration · Exfiltration T1021 Remote Services · Lateral Movement T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol · Lateral Movement T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin Shares · Lateral Movement T1021.003 Distributed Component Object Model · Lateral Movement T1021.004 SSH · Lateral Movement T1040 Network Sniffing · Credential Access T1046 Network Service Discovery · Discovery T1055 Process Injection · Defense Evasion T1056.001 Keylogging · Collection T1056.002 GUI Input Capture · Collection T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter · Execution T1059.001 PowerShell · Execution T1059.003 Windows Command Shell · Execution T1071.001 Web Protocols · Command And Control T1071.004 DNS · Command And Control T1078 Valid Accounts · Defense Evasion T1078.002 Domain Accounts · Defense Evasion T1078.004 Cloud Accounts · Defense Evasion T1082 System Information Discovery · Discovery T1083 File and Directory Discovery · Discovery T1085 T1085 T1090 Proxy · Command And Control T1098 Account Manipulation · Persistence T1102 Web Service · Command And Control T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer · Command And Control T1110 Brute Force · Credential Access T1113 Screen Capture · Collection T1114 Email Collection · Collection T1120 Peripheral Device Discovery · Discovery T1132 Data Encoding · Command And Control T1133 External Remote Services · Persistence T1135 Network Share Discovery · Discovery T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application · Initial Access T1192 T1192 T1195 Supply Chain Compromise · Initial Access T1195.002 Compromise Software Supply Chain · Initial Access T1202 Indirect Command Execution · Defense Evasion T1204.002 Malicious File · Execution T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services · Lateral Movement T1212 Exploitation for Credential Access · Credential Access T1213 Data from Information Repositories · Collection T1400 T1400 T1484.001 Group Policy Modification · Defense Evasion T1485 Data Destruction · Impact T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact · Impact T1490 Inhibit System Recovery · Impact T1491 Defacement · Impact T1495 Firmware Corruption · Impact T1496 Resource Hijacking · Impact T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service · Impact T1530 Data from Cloud Storage · Collection T1531 Account Access Removal · Impact T1542 Pre-OS Boot · Defense Evasion T1543.003 Windows Service · Persistence T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle · Credential Access T1558 Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets · Credential Access T1558.003 Kerberoasting · Credential Access T1566 Phishing · Initial Access T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment · Initial Access T1566.002 Spearphishing Link · Initial Access T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service · Exfiltration T1573 Encrypted Channel · Command And Control T1588.001 Malware · Resource Development T1595 Active Scanning · Reconnaissance T1595.002 Vulnerability Scanning · Reconnaissance T1611 Escape to Host · Privilege Escalation T1659 Content Injection · Initial Access T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information · Defense Evasion T1036 Masquerading · Defense Evasion T1036.005 Match Legitimate Name or Location · Defense Evasion T1053.005 Scheduled Task · Execution T1055.001 Dynamic-link Library Injection · Defense Evasion T1070.004 File Deletion · Defense Evasion T1136.001 Local Account · Persistence T1185 Browser Session Hijacking · Collection T1555 Credentials from Password Stores · Credential Access T1570 Lateral Tool Transfer · Lateral Movement T1586 Compromise Accounts · Resource Development T1588 Obtain Capabilities · Resource Development