$50 per website: AI agents compromised 100+ companies in under 23 hours each
Dapper-Tale-4021 · reddit · 2026-10-24
Attackers reportedly used AI agents to compromise 100+ companies (mostly online shops) at $50 per website and under 23 hours per attack, seeking persistent access to payment infrastructure. The author's point: targeted attacks always had a labor-cost floor that made small businesses safe by obscurity; at $50 and a day, even tiny shops become rational individual targets — compounded by this week's AI-discovered PHP vulnerabilities. Security practitioners: are you seeing this in real data yet?
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