A US court sentences Ukrainian Oleksii Lytvynenko to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the Conti ransomware attacks (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Anthropic released a threat-intelligence report detailing how it intercepted multiple attempts to weaponize its Claude model for ransomware, influence campaigns, surveillance, and biological-weapon research, ultimately terminating the work when its intent could not be verified. The company said the disruptions occurred throughout the year and involved plots ranging from wire-fraud conspiracies to illicit weaponization.