By The Hacker News
Publication Date: 2026-10-04 07:20:00
A new China-nexus cyber espionage group known as TA419 has been attributed to multiple credential phishing campaigns targeting artificial intelligence (AI) experts working for U.S. think tanks, universities, and legal sector organizations.
The campaigns have impersonated prominent economists and AI policymakers, as well as a prominent Anthropic employee, to single out an AI policy expert at a U.S. think tank in February 2026. The phishing email carried the subject line “Request for Feedback on Military Integration of Claude.”
“This activity likely supports wider Chinese intelligence objectives to better understand ongoing developments within the U.S. AI policy and regulatory landscape and occurs amid intense strategic competition, accusations of model distillation, and export controls involving the U.S. and China,” Proofpoint said in an analysis published this week.
The enterprise security company has described TA419…
