A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents

A hacker successfully breached over 100 websites, including those of John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins, utilizing an army of AI agents. According to AI security firm Norforge, these AI agents largely operated autonomously. The attacker, identified as the most active among exposed Cairn instances, targeted companies in the US, Canada, Australia, and Japan. This hacker detailed their preferred intrusion tactics in under 100 Chinese characters, with successful breaches typically taking around 23 hours.

This report details how one hacker, the most active among exposed Cairn instances, used AI agents to breach over 100 sites, unlike other reports focusing on general AI threats.