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Scoop: We looked over the shoulder of a Chinese-speaking hacker as they used AI agents to compromise more than 100 sites, including digital properties belonging to tractor maker Deere and home appliance firm SharkNinja. Almost *entirely* autonomous hacking. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: How one hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into scores of sitesOver the past couple of weeks, a cybersecurity researcher watched as a Chinese-speaking hacker broke into websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including farm equipment maker Deere , home app...

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These were set-it-and-forget-it intrusions. Hacker gave short, generic instructions — less than 100 Chinese characters — and AI agents did the rest, in some cases pulling off complex intrusions without any further human input.

Opsec not great on this hacker’s Cairn, though, which is how Snorre found it in the first place. I’ve left a message seeking comment by creating a dummy “project” and hoping they’ll notice. So far … they haven’t.