Chinese hacker hits over 100 company websites using AI agents — Deere and SharkNinja among top brands affected in…
- A hacker used AI agents to target more than 1,200 websites, compromising over 100 in under a month
- Autonomous agents tested vulnerabilities, adapted tactics, and established access with minimal human input
- Researchers warn AI-powered attacks are making large-scale website compromise faster and cheaper
In less than a month, a single Chinese hacker managed to break into more than 100 company websites, while doing almost none of the work himself. Instead, he tasked AI agents to do it for him and paid them around $5,000 in tokens for the job.
The campaign was spotted by cybersecurity researcher Snorre Fagerland from NorForge, who was looking for exposed Cairn installations when he found approximately two dozen being used for malicious purposes. These gave him first-hand insight into an active cybercriminal operation.
Cairn is described as an open source, general-purpose AI problem-solving engine, designed to help autonomous agents find solutions to complex tasks. Instead...
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