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Chinese hacker claims AI agents breached 100+ company websites
Original: A Chinese hacker used AI agents to break into more than 100 company websites — Deere and SharkNinja among websites hit by open-source AI-powered problem-solving platform demo
A Chinese hacker says AI agents running on an open-source, AI-powered problem-solving platform broke into more than 100 company websites, with John Deere and SharkNinja listed among the targets. The incidents were described as a demonstration of the platform's capabilities, raising fresh concerns about how easily autonomous AI tools can be weaponised for cyberattacks at scale.
Why now: The scale of the claimed breaches and the use of autonomous AI agents to conduct them have alarmed the cybersecurity world.
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