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Hacker used AI agents and thousands of dollars to breach scores of websites
Reuters EXCLUSIVE: A single attacker deployed AI agents to autonomously identify and compromise multiple websites with minimal capital investment ($2-5K range), demonstrating scalable, low-cost automated breach capability at scale (60+ targets).
WHY IT MATTERS
First documented large-scale AI-agent-led breach campaign. BFSI security teams must assume AI-powered reconnaissance and exploitation is now commodity-level threat. Budget for detection of autonomous scanning/attacking behaviors and agent-like patterns in logs.
Source: Reuters · 2026-10-19