Byte Me - Ramblings From The Data Trenches

Asking your employer for a copy of "all my personal data" sounds simple enough. In practice, it's the compliance equivalent of asking someone to empty every drawer, folder, inbox, and backup tape in the building, then hand you a neatly organised package within a calendar month. For HR teams and Data Protection Officers, the Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) has become one of the most resource-intensive obligations under GDPR.

In November 2025, Anthropic released a threat intelligence report that quietly rewrote the future of cybersecurity. For the first time in history, a state-sponsored threat actor used a frontier Large Language Model (LLM), Claude Code, to automate the majority of a real-world cyber-espionage operation¹. This article breaks down the full attack anatomy, and explains why AIDF is now the missing security layer every enterprise will need in 2026 and beyond.