Anthropic threat report names Moonshot, DeepSeek and Alibaba in distillation campaigns

Anthropic published its most detailed threat intelligence report to date, covering misuse disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven harm areas: cyber operations, surveillance, influence operations, scams, conventional weapons, biological misuse and illicit model distillation. A companion post attributes distillation campaigns to China-based labs including Moonshot AI, DeepSeek and Alibaba — Moonshot covertly routed roughly 300,000 Kimi user requests to Claude over ten days — with state-linked campaigns named from Russia, China and Iran. The report lands two days after the US NSA, CISA and FBI advisory on industrial-scale distillation.