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also tracked as zhipu 1

2 stories · 1 in the wild · July 25, 2026 – October 14, 2026

evidence: 1 observed

sectors

  • technology 1 · Oct 14

geography

  • china 1 · Oct 14
  • uk 1 · Jul 25
  • us 1 · Jul 25

techniques

  • credential access 1 · Oct 14

attack phases seen

  • Collection 1 · Oct 14
  • Credential access 1 · Oct 14

what we reported, newest first, grouped by story

October 14, 2026

  • Anthropic says it cut extraction of Claude's internal reasoning tokens by 90–99%, attributing the industrial-scale distillation attempts to Chinese firms Zhipu and Moonshot, and says it has banned tens of thousands of accounts (The Decoder). · Oct 14 · observed · as zhipu · AI & Model Security

July 25, 2026

  • Kimi K3 lags frontier models badly on offensive cyber. UK AISI and the US CAISI scored Kimi K3 at 32% on ExploitBench versus 76% for leading US models, with its safeguards failing to block exploit development or simulated attacks — a gap that aligns with allegations Moonshot distilled Anthropic's models. The Decoder. · Jul 25 · none · AI & Model Security