Look closely at that hacker. CrowdStrike found no sign of an elite team or a state program, only an actor who paired agentic tools with established techniques. The human contribution looks thin: choosing Korean lenders as targets, aiming the agents at them, and asking Claude where the stolen data might be sold. The software supplied most of the technical legwork. The operator supplied the intent. This is not the first example of state-backed groups leaning heavily on AI. In November 2025, Anthropic disclosed that a group it assessed with high confidence to be Chinese state-sponsored used Claude Code to run…