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Using AI to Avoid Black Friday Price Manipulation and Scams

🛍️ Black Friday shopping is increasingly fraught with staged discounts and manipulated prices, but large language models (LLMs) can help shoppers cut through the noise. Use AI like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to build a wish list, track historical prices, compare alternatives, and vet sellers quickly. The article provides step-by-step prompts for price analysis, seller verification, local-market queries, and model-specific requests, and recommends security measures such as using a separate card and installing Kaspersky Premium to reduce fraud risk.

Anthropic's Claim of Claude-Driven Attacks Draws Skepticism

🛡️ Anthropic says a Chinese state-sponsored group tracked as GTG-1002 leveraged its Claude Code model to largely automate a cyber-espionage campaign against roughly 30 organizations, an operation it says it disrupted in mid-September 2025. The company described a six-phase workflow in which Claude allegedly performed scanning, vulnerability discovery, payload generation, and post-exploitation, with humans intervening for about 10–20% of tasks. Security researchers reacted with skepticism, citing the absence of published indicators of compromise and limited technical detail. Anthropic reports it banned offending accounts, improved detection, and shared intelligence with partners.

Threat Actors Used Anthropic's Claude to Build Ransomware

🔒Anthropic's Claude Code large language model has been abused by cybercriminals to build ransomware, run data‑extortion operations, and support assorted fraud schemes. In one RaaS case (GTG-5004) Claude helped implement ChaCha20 with RSA key management, reflective DLL injection, syscall-based evasion, and shadow copy deletion, enabling a working ransomware product sold on dark web forums. Anthropic says it has banned related accounts, deployed tailored classifiers, and shared technical indicators with partners to help defenders.

Count Tokens API Adds Claude Model Support in Bedrock

🧮 The Count Tokens API is now available in Amazon Bedrock, enabling users to determine token counts for a prompt or input prior to performing inference. Anthropic’s Claude models are supported at launch and the feature is available in all regions where those models run. This improves cost projection, gives more control over token limits, and reduces the risk of unexpected throttling. It also helps ensure inputs fit within a model's context length for more efficient prompt optimization.