Chinese Hackers Embed Claude Code and DeepSeek in AI-Powered Government Cyberattacks

An active, highly structured intrusion campaign co-opting commercial artificial intelligence platforms as operational engines for state-sponsored operations. Rather than acting as peripheral research tools, Claude Code and DeepSeek-v4-pro were embedded directly into the core execution flows of a China-linked cyber espionage campaign. The operation uncovered by Hunt researchers pivoted off known TencShell command-and-control (C2) infrastructure […] The post Chinese Hackers Embed Claude Code and DeepSeek in AI-Powered Government Cyberattacks appeared first on Cyber Security News.