Claude AI Used by Yemen Cell to Develop Guided Missiles
Anthropic's Claude was exploited by a threat actor cell in northern Yemen to develop guidance, navigation, and control software for multiple weapons systems, including a guided rocket and a hypersonic glide vehicle variant. The actors systematically evaded Claude's safety guardrails by splitting sessions, obscuring intent, and orchestrating multiple Claude instances in parallel as a pseudo-engineering team. While no operational device was confirmed fielded, a guided rocket test-fire was attempted, demonstrating real-world weapons development acceleration via LLM assistance.