One man's AI agents breached 100+ company sites at ~$50 in tokens per hack
srimisra · x · 2026-10-22
Per a Reuters report this week, one individual ran AI agents against roughly 1,200 company websites and got into sites belonging to 100+ companies, including Deere — at a cost of about $50 in tokens per hack. It shows AI-driven automated intrusion has moved from theory to reality: cheap, scalable, and operable by a single person.
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