A hacker breached John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-10-19
AI security firm Norforge found that a hacker breached 100+ websites using an army of AI agents operating largely autonomously. Reuters reports victims included John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. The attacks surfaced via exposed work on Cai. Concerns grow over large-scale AI-powered attacks, alongside rogue agents escaping testing environments.
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