AI Agent Army Used to Breach John Deere and SharkNinja
A hacker deployed a fleet of largely autonomous AI agents via the open-source Cairn platform to compromise over 100 corporate websites, including John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. Security firm Norforge discovered the campaign through exposed Cairn instances, revealing how minimal human involvement was required to orchestrate the intrusions at scale. This incident marks a significant escalation in AI-enabled offensive operations, demonstrating that agentic frameworks originally designed for general problem-solving can be weaponised for large-scale, low-supervision cyberattacks.