Chinese Hackers Weaponize AI Tools in Cyber Espionage Campaign

Chinese-linked threat actors are conducting an active cyber-espionage campaign against Taiwanese government and financial sectors, embedding AI tools (Anthropic's Claude Code and DeepSeek-v4-pro) into attack execution and using TencShell command-and-control infrastructure. Researchers confirmed the AI integration and the campaign poses significant national security and economic risks, though exploited vulnerabilities and the number of affected organizations are unspecified.