Anthropic Catches DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Running 16M+ Distillation Attacks on Claude

Anthropic just published something every engineering leader needs to read. What Happened Three Chinese AI labs — DeepSeek , Moonshot , and MiniMax — were caught running large-scale distillation attacks on Claude. The numbers are staggering: 24,000+ fraudulent accounts created 16 million+ queries to Claude 13 million requests from MiniMax alone MiniMax pivoted to Claude's new model within 24 hours of release The goal: extract Claude's reasoning capabilities, tool usage patterns, and censorship-compliant responses to train their own models. Why This Matters for Developers If we can't secure AI models from other AI companies, how do we secure the AI tools that developers install every day? According to Snyk: 36.82% of third-party AI skills have security flaws 76 confirmed malicious packages This isn't hypothetical. The AI security problem is here now. What I Built That's why I built verified-skill.com . Three tiers of verification before any AI skill touches your machine. If a skill can't