Hacker uses AI agents to breach John Deere, SharkNinja

a hacker used ai agents on the open-source platform cairn to breach over 100 websites, including john deere, sharkninja, and cummins. the ai agents operated mostly on their own, with the hacker providing minimal input. the attacks were discovered by the ai security firm norforge, which found over 20 exposed cairn instances that are likely malicious. the breaches took around 23 hours to complete and impacted companies based in the us, canada, australia, and japan. john deere stated that there is no indication that sensitive information was accessed, while sharkninja said it has contained the threat.