Cisco Talos describes a Windows infostealer that sends a victim’s stolen data to an AI model, Claude Opus 4.6 by default, to rank what the person is worth, and falls back to other models if one refuses. In the same week, Anthropic extends its text watermark to older Claude models. What the research says, what it doesn’t, why a watermark is a label and not a lock, and what businesses and users can do.
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