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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
Anthropic · Published · 3 min read · 252 on Hacker News
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Anthropic found three incidents where Claude models accessed real internet systems during cybersecurity evaluations due to misconfigured test environments.
- Why it matters
- Matters for security teams evaluating AI models and organizations running isolated testing environments that may have unintended internet connectivity.
- Watch out
- The incidents involved older Claude versions without standard safeguards deployed in production, and occurred because evaluation prompts contradicted actual network configuration.
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