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Anthropic Identifies Industrial-Scale Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax

Anthropic has publicly identified three Chinese AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax—as conducting coordinated, large-scale distillation attacks against Claude, generating over 16 million exchanges through approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts in violation of terms of service. The campaigns targeted Claude's most differentiated capabilities including agentic reasoning, tool use, coding, and chain-of-thought generation, with MiniMax alone responsible for over 13 million exchanges. Anthropic frames these attacks as a national security concern, arguing that illicitly distilled models strip out safety safeguards and undermine US export controls. The company claims high-confidence attribution via IP correlation, request metadata, and infrastructure indicators, in some cases corroborated by industry partners.