'The internet is the marches now': ten days of AI-agent breaches and cracked platforms, recapped
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-10-23
The capstone of the 'Black October' series: the author likens today's internet to medieval border country where the king's law ran out and raiders crossed at night. In ten days, AI agents breached hundreds of companies, a dozen platforms were robbed for their keys, and PHP, GitLab, Node and Linux all cracked. The series' core claim: AI is simultaneously amplifying attacker automation and forcing defenders onto open-weight self-hosted models — rewriting the security landscape.
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