هاكر يستخدم «جيش» من وكلاء الذكاء الاصطناعي ويخترق أكثر من 100 موقعA hacker used an army of AI agents to break into more than 100 websites

A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly worked on their own, according to findings from AI security firm Norforge reported by The Verge. Norforge did not name the targets, but Reuters reported that the victims included companies such as John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins.

Norforge researchers uncovered the attacks through exposed work on Cairn, an open-source platform that describes itself as a "general-purpose problem-solving engine". Users set a start and end point, and the agents work towards it and document their progress. But Norforge says hackers can also use it to run cyberattacks with AI agents.

According to Reuters, this hacker was the "most active" among the exposed Cairn instances and attacked companies in the US, Canada, Australia and Japan. The attacker laid out "preferred intrusion tactics" in fewer than 100 Chinese characters, and successful breaches took about 23 hours. Overall, Norforge found more than 20 exposed Cairn instances that are "likely malicious" and says it is working to get them taken down.

John Deere told Reuters there was no indication that sensitive information was accessed. SharkNinja said the breach hit a standalone site with product support information and that it had contained the threat, and Cummins said it is investigating a potential cyber-attack on a website run by one of its third-party vendors. Cairn's creator said the platform "was never a 'hacking tool'" and that misuse is a human decision.