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Hacker used AI agents and modest capital to breach multiple web properties at scale
Reuters exclusive: a single attacker deployed autonomous AI agents with only thousands of dollars in capital to compromise dozens of websites. The attack chain automates reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, and initial access.
WHY IT MATTERS
Democratizes multi-target breach automation. BFSI security teams must assume adversaries will run AI-driven scanning and exploit chains 24/7. Incident detection and response SLAs need orders-of-magnitude acceleration.
Source: Reuters · 2026-10-19