Anthropic says two Iranian intelligence-linked units used its Claude models to build a Firefox browser extension disguised as a prayer-times tool and a shared case-management system called "Arman" to harvest and store the identities of Iranian citizens. The disclosure comes from the company's latest threat intelligence report, *Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026*, which catalogs activity Anthropic disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven categories of misuse, including surveillance, cyber operations, and state-run influence campaigns.
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