Solo Hacker Uses AI Agents to Breach 100+ Company Websites

A lone hacker deployed AI agents against about 1,200 company websites starting September 25, breaching over 100 of them—including Deere—at roughly $50 in token costs per intrusion, as experts warn powerful new AI models are fueling a wave of cheap, large-scale cyberattacks.

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