TechHacker breached John Deere and SharkNinja using an army of AI agents

AI security firm Norforge found that a hacker used mostly autonomous AI agents to break into more than 100 websites. Reuters reported that victims included John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. The attacks used the open-source AI platform Cairn and targeted companies in the US, Canada, Australia and Japan. John Deere said there was no indication sensitive information was accessed; Cummins is investigating, while SharkNinja said a standalone product-support site was affected and the threat contained.

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